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...scene. Last week in Pravda, Yevtushenko published a 111-line poem to Allison Krause, one of the four students killed by National Guard gunfire at Kent State University. His theme was a gesture reportedly made by Allison, 19, on the day before her death. She put a flower in the muzzle of a Guardsman's rifle and said: "Flowers are better than bullets." It was one of the Russian's more bathetic recent poems, aimed not so much against America as against war and militarist authority. Sample lines...
...devoted to the San Francisco scene-the origins of the Height, the "summer of love" and the following autumn, when the hippie movement was declared dead, murdered by the media. From there, the book shifts back to the East, keeping pace with the changing vibrations, as the love-peace-flower power ethic finally dissolves, and the Movement begins to splinter...
...laid out before you, as the tone of his writings changes with the tone of the community. The respected policemen of the first part of the book become the pigs of the second. United community leaders from one article suddenly reappear as leaders of opposing factions in another. The flower power ethic, gently regarded in the beginning of the book, is nothing but a myth...
...never preached about her deeply held views. She opposed the war, and with her boy friend, Barry Levine, was among the spectators caught in the rifle fire. An honor student interested in the history of art, she believed in protest but not in violence. She had placed a flower in a Guardsman's rifle at Kent State and said softly: "Flowers are better than bullets." "Is dissent a crime?" asked Allison Krause's father. "Is this a reason for killing her? Have we come to such a state in this country that a young girl...
...without his Lear. Now the tramp was confronting his maker in rapt concentration. Intense and difficult listening: this Beckett, like a Bach sonata for unaccompanied violin, is a music compacted of roughnesses and silences, almost demanding of the audience too the explorations and repetitions of rehearsal in order to flower in performance...