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What made the first two Band albums perhaps the greatest white American rock was their combination of Dylan's approach to lyrics with a tight sense of musicianship that Dylan's records rarely achieved. Though their third, Stage Fright, was stylistically similar to the others, it seemed to lack content, as though Robbie Robertson was really straining to come up with new material. Though the singing and playing were excellent, most of the songs didn't seem to justify the effort...
...only the persistence of terrorist activities, but also a particularly senseless episode of violence that occurred early in the year (see box). The Arabs of Gaza, however, reacted bitterly to the mass punishment that was meted out. Their mood now, as a result, is a mixture of fright, frustration and resentment...
Chief among these techniques is "systematic desensitization," the process a mother uses when she accustoms a baby to the ocean by dipping in one foot first, then a leg, then the infant's whole body. In that case, the delightful feel of the water gets the better of fright. Similarly in behavior therapy, Wolpe uses gradual methods of confronting neurotic behavior to overcome anxiety. The Pennsylvania student, for example, was told that his failure had conditioned him to fear sex, and he was advised to find an understanding girl who would be patient with him until he had conquered...
...rickety old building off of Men Drive. They had not had a chance to shower for a few days, many of them talked tough-much to the horror of some rigid observers. Among the women, there were some who were in love with each other. This fright need some people...
...forced to go to this extreme to defend itself against Americans who say No, you don't have the civil right to carry on business as usual when this business as usual means death and destruction for millions, you see just how scared they were. And their fear, their fright that Mayday might actually challenge the way power is distributed and decisions are made in this country, is the real victory of this country's first attempt at mass civil disobedience...