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BARNETT FRUMMER IS AN UNBLOOMED FLOWER by Calvin Trillin. 98 pages. Viking...
...lived. On the second album cover, Magical Mystery Tour (1967), Gibb found an equally arcane message; Paul is dressed in black, the others in white; an inside picture shows Paul as a soldier above a sign reading "I Was You"; the back cover shows him wearing a black flower-the other three have red ones-alongside a funeral wreath. For a final tipoff, Gibb recalled a McCartney look-alike contest held two years ago. The winner was never announced, said the disk jockey, because he filled Paul's slot. Nonsense, answered a Beatle flack: "I haven't seen...
WOULDN'T YOU know it? Kerouac is dead. Neal Cassady is dead, and now Kerouac, of a "massive hemorrhage." He drank too much. He couldn't seem to make the transition to the flower- power scene. He was too much the dirty bum, the dope fiend, the sinner redeemed through his sin, innocent the whole way, embarrassingly sincere, impatient, hostile, one of the most generous souls of his time, a creator of the American underground, avatar of the ones who could not fight the Nova Police because there were too few of them, and they would have been crushed: William...
...shrimp curry, turkey and roast beef, the same kind she used to serve in her restaurant in nearby Stockbridge. Arlo's hippie friends wandered to and fro, the girls in their gowns and see-through blouses, the boys in beads and boots. "I feel like a flower child," said Arlo's mother. "You look like a flower child," replied Arlo...
Darlington states, for instance, that the incest taboo, which is not only common to all human societies but is regarded as a moral decision to avoid the hazards of inbreeding, is, in fact, instinctive. Just as evolution forbids self-pollination to the hermaphrodite flower, so evolution prohibits incest in man. "In a stable world," he writes, "[inbreeding] allows, it even guarantees, success. But in a changing world it brings disaster. For the inbred race in plants, animals or men is uniform and predictable like a variety of potato. Faced with new situations, new environments, it is quickly displaced in competition...