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...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 (where he was studying journalism), Coryell believes in embracing all musical styles: "If music has something to say to you -whether it's jazz, country blues, Western or hillbilly, Indian or any other folk music-take it. Never restrict yourself...
Until the new curriculum is put into effect and new textbooks written and printed, Red Chinese education is bound to be chaotic. Already Mao's revolution is producing its own backlash among the youth-a new hippie-type, dropout group that Shanghai newspapers are castigating as "wanderers": "Instead of fighting on the battlefront, they wander around school campuses, parks and streets; they spend their time in swimming pools and playing chess and cards. They take an attitude of nonintervention in the struggle." But Mao's men tend to give such wanderers short shrift. The aim of education...
...superb stories of despair that prove it. One, The Frozen Fields, shows how a father's hostility slowly corrodes the brain of a small boy. The other, Tapia-ma, follows an American photographer to the end of his skid. It is a masterwork on the psychology of the dropout, an exemplary model of existentialism in the service of fiction. Utterly bored, the photographer drifts through Latin America and slips into drunkenness at a sinister plantation bar. Unconsciously, he falls victim to conspiracy, accident, destruction. "What is freedom in the last analysis," he says to himself, "other than the state...
...shaven, productive member of society. In his gut, he practices the same philosophy of the more publicized hippies, but he is so unconventional and nonconformist that he doesn't need to wear bangles, beads and a beard to prove that, in spirit, he is a hippie. In time, dropout hippies may realize that they can do as much, or more, on the inside of society as on the outside. Until then, we should be everlastingly thankful to them for reminding us of the values we all are supposed to possess...
...Angeles ghetto of Watts went berserk in 1965 after an unemployed high school dropout named Marquette Frye was arrested for drunken driving. In six days of rioting, 35 died, 900 were injured. In 1966, the Cleveland ghetto of Hough erupted when a white bartender denied a glass of ice water to a Negro patron. And in Newark, N.J., a trumpet-playing Negro cab driver by the name of John Smith last week became the random spark that ignited the latest-and one of the most violent-of U.S. race riots...