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...express a truthful emotion that is pure and honest, then I consider the poem a success." But when Rolling Stone published a chart of the rock scene showing her suspected lovers, the spotlight became too bright. Joni fled temporarily to Europe. Even now she calls herself a "media dropout" who seldom reads newspapers and never looks at television...
...altruist and vanguard of the people, who gradually is tranformed into a crazy, tyrannical despot as his power increases. Then there is Flash, a corrupt gangster-like politician currently in power, whose mere presence is a cause for alarm among the people. Finally there is the Tramp, a social dropout who acts as the detached narrator and is probably the character with whom Davies identifies most...
...Scout Handbook of the counterculture movement was The Last Whole Earth Catalog, published in 1971, which told the dropout generation where to get the information to do its own thing-cultivate organic food, build geodesic domiciles, grow pot. The volume went through 14 printings, sold 1.2 million copies, won a prestigious National Book Award and turned Publisher Stewart Brand, 35, into an old-fashioned capitalist...
...itchy foot and no talent at all for drawing uplifting morals from life's little disasters. "Hard work gives a man character-and a slight stoop," he says. Mom is dead, and the head of the family is Truckie (Gary Busey) a 24-year-old high school dropout who is more admired by his siblings because he has done time for "grand theft, auto" than for his efforts to raise them respectably while completing his self-reformation by returning to school and getting...
This point of view is increasingly accepted. Says Mrs. Lyle Voellger, 34, of Seattle, the mother of seven children: "Today a woman is almost considered an intellectual dropout if she's a mother and a housewife and enjoys it." The 36.5 million women now working constitute 46% of the American work force, and a growing number of them admit that they do not want to assume the burden of motherhood...