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...basic emotions of man: sorrow and delight, sexuality and violence. Being always present these responses are easily aroused. In part also rock 'n' roll owes its profound charge to the form itself: the typical rock song (and this applies even to a masterpiece like "Satisfaction") is internally compact in lyrics message, and overall feel, rigidly prescribed within a chosen format, a format defined above all by a thrusting beat. It brings its own tiny bristling life with it and is for this reason less dependent on one's personal circumstances which makes it easily, and so universally accessible...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: The Miami Pop Festival: Silver Linings Galore in the Faint Cloud Over Rock | 1/22/1969 | See Source »

...death. Aided by his sister Electra, Agamemnon's son Orestes in turn murders both his mother and her lover Aegisthus. Pursued by the Furies, Orestes is tried before the goddess of Athens and acquitted at Apollo's intercession. But for the future, the goddess makes a compact "between the light of the mind and the voices of the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: Elizabethan Greeks | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...everything you need at huge savings including our LAB-12 record changer (with base and cartridge) and a pair of our famous compact Optimus-I speakers. Regular $419.95. Sale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Gifts For Each and Everyone | 12/12/1968 | See Source »

Protestations of Probity. Compact (5 ft. 8 in., 180 Ibs.), often rumpled, Klein, 50, is a competent newspaper executive whose notable talent is neither writing nor editing but getting along with people. Incongruously, for a chief operative in a notoriously efficient political organization, Klein has always been a "dirty-desk" man who seems almost constitutionally unable to arrive for an appointment on time. As a political reporter for California's Alhambra Post-Advocate, he became friendly with Nixon in 1946, when he first ran for the House against Jerry Voorhis. Since then, Klein's journalistic career has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Superchief of Information | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...Brazil sedan, a cross between the U.S. Chevy Nova and the German Opel. Depending on the model, it will sell for $4,250 to $4.800-about twice as much as a similar car made in the U.S., where taxes are lower. Ford's trade-up entry is the compact Corcel ($3,436). The highest-priced car at the show is the Brazilian Ford Galaxie LTD; at $9,546, it is the country's newest status symbol. Chrysler, which along with the other three companies accounts for 92% of all auto production, is waiting until 1970 to present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Middle-Class Wheels | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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