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...music itself was mediocre to ordinary; ordinary from the rhythm section and mediocre from the guitars. Lead guitarist Amos Garrett cannot hold a phrase on his instrument, which essentially means that he can't play a decent fill between phrases of the vocal, the most fundamental aspect of playing blues guitar. Its overall listen ability was a combination of general enjoyment and the knowledge that there's really not much you can do to the 12 bar blues format. "Walking Blues" opened the set and set its Chicago blues tone. Muldaur's songs, mercifully, were all together, so they were...
...Radcliffe eight oar division, using a new modified start, held "an early lead all the way down the course, in a very exciting neck and neck race," coach Garrett S. Olmstead, a second year graduate student in Archaeology, said after the race...
...Peckinpah's film Straw Dogs has been the subject of much criticism recently, but perhaps the strongest reaction is Garrett Epps' description of the film as "classic fascism." This phrase is clarified as "the quest for the meta-experience of violence as a validation of existence." I'm uncertain what that sentence means exactly, but it appears at least to be neutral between repression and liberation...
...that Jacques Brel is a very successful 42 year old French singer-songwriter and that the mysterious title belongs to a musical revue of 25 Brel songs translated into English. I pictured Brel as a young Chevalier transforming charm into success and moving with case from a Left Bank garrett (like Gene Kelly's in An American in Paris) to a Citroen and townhouse in the snappy 16th Arrondissment. I imagined him a patsy for Dubonnet commercials...
...Garrett concludes his essay with a revisionist thought in which we concur. The goal of our movement should not be utopian. We want to establish a just human community, not the reign of inhuman perfection. We must accept ourselves. We are far from Angola and Vietnam, and though we share many of the goals of the guerrila fighters, we cannot, by force of will, evaporate that distance in an instant. We ask of ourselves, and of our friends, a beginning; a first commitment to the ideals of socialism. That is what George Orwell made...