Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have just read your article on Bobby Kennedy's pilgrimage to Appalachia [Feb. 23]. I would love to be in Harlan or Letcher to hear the chuckles and knee-slapping guffaws about that peculiar-talking outlander with the sissy haircut. Doesn't Bobby know that the ancestors of those deprived mountaineers left the crags of Wales and the glens of Scotland while his forebears were still sharing the parlor peatfire with the pigs? Their English may hark back to Elizabeth I, as do their music and customs, and they may live on poke salad and fatback...
...BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND: THE RESURRECTION OF PIGBOY CRABSHAW (Elektra). Few forms of music sound more authentic than lowdown blues, and Butterfield's band provides a refreshing collection of wild wails about oldtime, alltime troubles. While the style is no newer than the subjects, it is good to hear young musicians who have rediscovered the compelling mournfulness of harmonicas, saxophones and on-key melodies...
...olden, non-pop times it might have been called Romance, an exploration into that cold, diamond land between reality and fantasy. For the Romancer it's a terrifying land, more real than real, full of wind-smooth souls and forces which nudge us through life. "Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen," wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne. Or, to quote Hunter's epigraph for Desire: "In the vocabulary of the sub-conscious there is a word for every shape and sound that goes unnoticed in passing time. Though we will never speak them...
...broader base would be preferable for several reasons. Though this kind of Union may look like a cop-out to Harvard militants, its impact on society at large would be impressive. Most Americans would be shocked to hear that a vast majority of Harvard students support draft resisters. In addition, a broad-based group would attract many students who shy away from anti-war and anti-draft organizations. These are the students who must be mobilized and counted in the ranks of the anti-war movement, if it is to break with its parochial tradition and blossom into a national...
...only be honest about what you know about yourself. You cannot equate honesty with brutality. In Hannah Green's book, the doctor was not brutal with the child. She did finally say, "I never promised you a rose garden." But it was only whenthe patient was ready to hear it, and had discovered that the world wasn't going to be a rose garden...