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...pilgrimage to Bethel. The lure of the festival was an all-star cast of top rock artists, including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Jefferson Airplane. But the good vibrations of good groups turned out to be the least of it. What the youth of America?and their observing elders???saw at Bethel was the potential power of a generation that in countless disturbing ways has rejected the traditional values and goals of the U.S. Thousands of young people, who had previously thought of themselves as part of an isolated minority, experienced the euphoric sense of discovering that they...
...seeking by sinister and subtle means to overthrow the Constitution, whether by intrigue, evasion or nullification." The Church "will stand squarely against any proposal that would in any way invalidate or weaken the outlawry of the [liquor] traffic." To approve this the 1,000 commissioners?half ministers, half elders???at Cincinnati stood up and yea-ed most heartily...
...This Strange Adventure. Any woman?every woman? is the theme; but the particular woman Mrs. Rinehart chooses is a delicate soul, and what little spirit she has is crushed and twisted by circumstance. The proverbially gay '90s are sufficiently Victorian to give "Missie" a sense of duty toward her elders???always she defers to them, always she forfeits her own happiness. First there was her father upon whom she and the rest of the household danced attendance. Then there was her lonely mother?tragic fat wreck of a plump burlesque-girl. Then there was her father's excessively respectable mother...
...with honest British cliches of word, action and philosophy. It is another young woman's (Miss Thompson is 24) post-bellum retort. It will please many, but to this reviewer the younger characters seem wooden things from the hand of a very self-conscious creator. Not so the elders???Edgar Renner, an anglicized Viennese, and his wife, a sweetly arrogant English girl?with whom Miss Thompson seems more at ease. THE PENTON PRESS CO., CLEVELAND...
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