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...poetry, for poets have less rubbish in their heads than other men. They have the power of symbol. Great poets possess the power of sensuous and formal mental penetration attaining the condition of music, and of religion- faith in universal, immanent, translucent truth. America has taken the most parochial habit of mind in the wide world, and made the wide world serve it. We are losing our words for universality, except those for the universal battle of market, magnate, and demagogue, the threefold prelacy of the universal blood-demanding Democratic Church...
...habit of placing concepts in convoluted categories only slightly obscures the author's anxiety about violence and its personal consequences. She sympathizes with the contemporary rage against such things as the war-prone tendency of technology and bureaucratic "rule by Nobody." She understands the "this-is-the-way-the-world-ends" feeling of today's youth as it contemplates the possibility of environmental disaster or atomic war. Though the causes of rebellion and violence often seem just, the use of violence obviously dismays her. "Power and violence are opposites," she writes. "Where one rules absolutely, the other...
...election crisis reflects the deeply ingrained Dominican worry about continuismo-the Latin American habit of hanging on to power. Just a year ago, Balaguer was publicly pooh-poohing questions about a second term, saying that "only a plebiscite of gigantic proportions" could make him run again. But more and more it appears that the bachelor President is harking back to the example of his old boss, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who carefully orchestrated elections during his 31-year rule. Under Trujillo, Balaguer served briefly as a puppet President...
...legendary combo that made millions blending Dixieland and mariachi. As the new Warner film Woodstock (see CINEMA) makes emphatically clear, Joe was one of the hits of last summer's historic Woodstock festival. In those days, working with an instrumental quartet called the Grease Band, Cocker had the habit of taking light rock, such as softer ditties by the Beatles, and giving it the heavy treatment. Now Joe has a large new group (36 friends known as Mad Dogs and Englishmen). It can back him up in anything from jazz to low-down blues to gospel singing. Gruff...
They were wrong. Since the boycott, blacks have lost the habit of shopping on Dryades Street, partly because a white-owned bank, a Woolworth's and a McCrory's store have moved elsewhere-and the whole area has gone downhill. Though Willis and Dural offer brand-name clothes at reasonable prices, middle-class blacks prefer to shop at more prestigious downtown stores-a habit that in other cities is yielding to a "buy black" movement. Willis and Dural do not have the resources to provide credit, and they have refused to send customers to white loan sharks...