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...leaves prison as a reformed character, he faces hazards for which no prison can be blamed. In a Harris poll, 72% of Americans endorsed rehabilitation as the prison goal. But when it came to hiring an ex-armed robber who had shot someone, for example, 43% would hesitate to employ him as janitor, much less as a salesman (54%) or a clerk handling money (71%). This is obviously understandable; it also teaches ex-cons that crime pays because nothing else does...
...score of Superstar, in its weakness, spells out the problems of any attempt at "rock opera"; the closer "rock opera" comes to conventional opera, the more structured the form of the work has to be, and the more difficult it is effectively to employ rock music in the score; opera has to develop plot and characters verbally-with the words sung by the characters. The tendency, then, is for the music to become somewhat subordinate to, and tied to, the structure of the words. The Who's Tommy avoided the problem by keeping very close to pure rock performance...
...there was a touch of the put-on and package-deal about the whole enterprise of covering the moon shoot. The flimsy mask of Aquarius itself seemed to have less to do with its wearer's famous ego than with the self-kidding that well-established products sometimes employ in their advertisements. There was, after all, a fortune involved. The gross from the serialization in LIFE, the book version and all world-wide rights would be more than $1 million. Aquarius had long since shed the intellectual's frequent ambiguity toward money. He needed it too much. There...
Sheldon Cohen, the owner of the Out-of-Town Ticket Agency, organized the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association last summer, as a response to the rash of trashing and looting that swept through the Square. His group asked the Cambridge City Council to employ more police in the Square, and to try to eliminate street people...
Part of the problem in writing about the brain has to do with language and loosely defined terminology. Halacy's brisk reportage, use of quaint diagrams and illustrations, and obvious enthusiasm for scientific breakthroughs tend to overshadow the innumerable qualifications he must employ. For the present, perhaps all that we can be certain of is Ambrose Bierce's definition of the brain: "An apparatus with which we think that we think...