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In view of this, a defense of Merle Haggard runs two risks. First of all, one doesn't want to be labelled a victim of some twisted pop decadence, a sort of latent Alice Cooper fanatic who took a wrong turn. Even worse, the whole thing threatens to suggest the...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: An Apology for Merle Haggard | 10/11/1973 | See Source »

Dynamite? Not quite. Instead of fizzing with life, Breslin's story usually sloshes like stale stout. He seems to miss the clipped confines of a newspaper column or magazine piece. Convincing evocations of blue-collar Saturday nights in Queens or of Bogside palaver in Londonderry stretch out until insights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Emerald Blues | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

THE NUMBER of confirmed radicals here probably hovers somewhere around 200--perhaps half what it was at the peak of the 1969-70 activism. This number, though smaller, is still large enough to provide the initial spark for successful activiist campaigns. Moreover, most of the Harvard left is centralized in...

Author: By Dainel Swanson, | Title: Harvard Was Quiet, But Vietnam Will Win | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

For the last four years I was more a photographer than anything else. I was, of course, a student, athlete, writer, friend, roommate, movie fanatic, filmmaker, Soviet scholar, and table hockey player, but all for fleeting moments only. The four years are very much over now, the sheepskin is irretrievably...

Author: By Peter Southwick, | Title: A Harvard Album: Last Page | 8/21/1973 | See Source »

Wright's primary nonlegal passion coincides with that of his No. 1 client, Richard Nixon: he is a football fanatic. Like Nixon, Wright was a sometime college player (right end at Wesleyan in Connecticut). He says, "I'm prouder of having played than anything I've ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: In Court: Wright for the President | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

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