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Poco. Richie Furay genuinely loves this town and Boston genuinely loves Poco. I know a guy with tickets in the second row, and he's on cloud nine. And with good reason. Poco makes about the finest countrified rock around, and does it with such effervescent good humor that it's contagious. Furay and his band ooze the same good vibes that you get from the likes of Rod Stewart...
...Lessing's characters get off without one or another dehumanizing analysis of their personalities. Lessing has an annoying habit of randomly doing away with articles and pronouns. She occasionally writes a very bad sentence (for instance: "The flight was called and he was airborne, floating west inside grey cloud that was his inner state,"). But these are aesthetic blights, and none so damaging-or so interesting-as this inability of hers to write convincing, let alone good, fiction about politics...
...even more significance, however, Washington's sabotage of a Vietnam peace settlement will cast a gray cloud over the future of international detente. For in the next four years, no one of goodwill will trust Nixon enough to enter into the kind of meaningful and longlasting agreements which will secure the future well-being of mankind...
...SHOTGUN KILLINGS of Denver A. Smith and Leonard Douglas Brown--two 20 year-old black students at Southern University's Baton Rouge campus--have once again shown the dark and violent underside of American race relations. From this distance the cloud of tear-gas that covered the incident has not lifted and it is no more clear why the shot-gun shells were fired than who ordered not equipped police on the campus...
Nixon heads into his last term under a cloud of partisan acrimony engendered by the charges and counter-charges growing out of the Watergate political-espionage investigations. A criminal trial, several civil suits, a Senate committee investigation led by Democrats, all may poison the atmosphere. The highly protective and pugnacious White House domestic staff seems more adept at political infighting than at helping the President govern by conciliating contending factions...