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LIFE, metaphysicians of the record industry will tell you, is a super-monster smash; dig it. It is performed in an illogical world that is both flat and round, where 33? r.p.m. exerts a fearful centrifugal force. The U.S., particularly that extensive tribe of its citizenry under 30, is electronically in thrall to the thrumming, incessant sound of music, a phenomenon that has handed the record business a supremely marketable mania. Every week, hundreds of records are poured into radio stations by promoters trying to crack the crucial list of Top 40 hits that get saturation air play. Every year...
Whether what's coming is a West Texas farm boy playing Bach fugues on a cactus pear or the White House staff singing footlight favorites, you can bet your quadraphonic tape deck that Farrell and his competitors will be on hand, those contract-signing ballpoints at the ready; dig...
...faces as a black college. Education at Miles confronts fundamental problems of race and social structure. Seventyfive per cent of Miles' 1200 students receive Federal poverty assistance, and the average Miles freshman--like his counterpart in most black colleges--has only ninth-grade level reading skills. "They can't dig up the money or the SAT scores to draw attention to themselves," Monro says, "and for a place like Harvard, they're totally out of reach." Furthermore, most Miles freshmen have spent 18 years in the black neighborhoods of Birmingham; their contact with the white community is highly circumscribed...
...willing to try just about anything. Homeward bound from the Soviet Union's 50th-anniversary celebrations in Moscow, Castro's plane stopped for refueling in Newfoundland, so Fidel set out to see the sights of Gander. He tossed a few snowballs, helped a pair of pretty nurses dig their car out of a snowbank, finally decided to try a little tobogganing. Unfortunately the toboggan tipped, sending el máximo lider sprawling into the snow. Everyone guffawed. Even Fidel...
...ahead can be discerned in the attitudes of young people. "They shy away from the idea of total self-surrender," Comfort observes. "They say, There must be a piece of myself for myself. It isn't that I don't love you, but I don't dig this symbiotic fusion.' " Just as many young people are no longer willing to give themselves completely to one person, so they no longer expect to get all of the emotional satisfactions they need from a single lifelong partner. "The fantasy of one-to-one sufficiency has let us down...