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Viewed from the gallery, the U.S. Senate falls woefully short of its own billing as the greatest deliberative body on earth. Vital issues are very often resolved casually after pawky debates; speakers drone on in an echo chamber of vacant desks. Delay and confusion abound. Last week Senators tugged valiantly at their togas and amended the rule book in the name of statesmanly decorum...
...talk is expected to drone on until midweek, when the Senate begins a seven-day recess to permit Republican orators to scatter for Lincoln's Birthday addresses. Soon thereafter, the Democrats take their turn with a Jefferson-Jackson Day recess. Thus far, the Senate's torpor has mattered little, since its calendar is empty of business. Incredibly, with crises pressing in from all sides, the world's greatest deliberative body simply has nothing else to deliberate about...
Meanwhile I was getting used to sleeping under mosquito nets while educating my ears to the booms produced by different kinds of American ordnance used on the outskirts of Saigon at night. The noise of shelling competed with the constant drone of helicopters and jets taking off and landing at Ton San Nhut, only a ten-minute walk from the International Voluntary Services house. During the day I tried to get to know Saigon and imagine what it might look like without its oppressive cocoon of sandbags, barricades, rolls of concertina wire and black exhaust soot (military traffic has created...
Song of the Grasshopper was a fable that pitted the steady workers of this world against a charming drone. Naturally the drone wins. Alfred Drake played the role in his customary vagabond troubadour style, sans songs. Grasshopper was adapted from the Spanish, and the original play may just possibly have possessed something more dramatic than tedium recollected in tranquillity...
...messianic, for it suggests the way out of the gloomy muddle that jazz has fallen into." > Larry Coryell, 24, guitarist in the Gary Burton Quartet. Coryell builds exciting, unpredictable solos with clusters of freshly turned chords, tantalizing silences, sudden vaulting runs leading into intense twangings, and the carefully manipulated drone of feedback from his amplifier. Through it all run echoes of the blues and country music he learned as a boy in Texas, the rock he played with a group called the Free Spirits, even the gypsy airs of the late Django Reinhardt. A dropout from the University of Washington...