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...gone out from the White House that until the economy is cooled off every other problem, however pressing, must be subordinate to it. "It has to be dealt with," Urban Adviser Pat Moynihan said last week. "There is no liberal or conservative position on it. Only a damned fool would ignore the problem...
...cruel tricks of the Viet Cong. One of them is to force peasants into a clearing and make them hold up signs proclaiming their allegiance to the Viet Cong. "The V.C. want the peasants to die," explains Anh, "so they can say that we killed them. But we fool the V.C. We know V.C. hide in the bushes, so we fire into the bushes and not at the peasants in the field...
Calais to Coromandel. A painter, poet and fantasist, Lear-as Vivien Noakes' biography makes clear-was a kindly, gifted man in many ways as mocked by madness and petty affliction as Shakespeare's eponymous king. The later Lear, however, played his own gentle fool; his tragedy was wistful farce. When he died in 1888, he left a jumble sale of assorted scribblings, some illustrated travel books rarely looked at any more and A Book of Nonsense, containing verses that will be heard as long as a rattle sounds in the cradle...
...lost and I sing of first love." Further, she says, "I found my own style in a more contemporary bag-pop-rock." Roslyn belts out such non-Streisand pop-rock numbers as The Shape of Things to Come and John Lennon's and Paul McCartney's The Fool on the Hill with her voice well under control...
...young, too, are exploiting the boom, although less cynically. A California rock group called The Fool has recorded several zodiacal songs?not because they believe only in astrology, but because they feel generally tuned in to the entire occult world (the Fool is the card in the fortunetelling Tarot deck that stands for Man). "This is a very brilliant generation," says Kiyo, a young half-Japanese astrologer who works mostly among pop groups and folk singers. "They're interested in astrology because they've found the material things failing them, and they're trying to find their souls." In Manhattan...