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...STROM was astrummin' a new and angry tune. At a Washington reception given by Southern Republican leaders, Senator Thurmond kept jabbing a bony finger into the chest of Bill Timmons, a conservative Tennessean and President Nixon's top congressional liaison man, berating him about the Administration's school policies ("I've got marks all over me," reports Timmons). The South Carolina Senator also complained that he could not get to see Nixon as often as he liked. Spotting Attorney General John Mitchell, he lit into him too. Then, on the Senate floor, Thurmond charged that...
...innovations. Calfskin heads are used on drums instead of plastic ones, and a system of rope and leather ears is utilized to keep the heads taut, rather than metal rods. The fife must be the genuine article: a primitive piccolo consisting simply of a tube (usually wooden) with six finger holes plus a hole to blow across...
...Godard would point his finger at the "Academy Awards" and re-em-phasize Vertov's disgust. A former French individualist, Godard is now a member of a film collective "where we are all directors, actors, actresses, cameraman or camera-women." The collective is named for Vertov. It decides spontaneously what to shoot and devotes itself to experimentation and self-criticism. It acts on Godard's off quoted assumption that "In order to become an intellectual revolutionary, it is necessary to give up being an intellectual." The collective members have not become scholars of ancient revolutions but rather what Stokeley Carmichael...
Fossil Fears. As encounters multiplied and perspective deepened, Jane found herself kicking pillows and hurling finger paint with the worst of them-and feeling, as a result, relieved of some fossil fears. On the whole, she recommends the treatment (at least to those who think they need it), but she also warns that successful therapy, in the Each-One, Touch-One tradition, can be almost more trouble than it's worth. Having learned with some difficulty to relax her lower face and let her mouth hang just a little open, she went to visit her family. "What...
...case of Ralph Blum's The Simultaneous Man, most of the items in question fit snugly enough into a compelling plot designed to dissuade the itchy finger of exegesis. The book is at once a superior science-fiction story, a polished exercise in literary styles and a deeply personal moral statement...