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...pleasant riff and instinctively they begin to give it the full treatment--toying with it pretentiously for about thirteen minutes, padding it with irrelevant organ solos and guitar solos and the mandatory drum solo (with extensive use of the bass drum yet!). This music is very different from, and inferior to, the concentrated, strictly organized, but striking sound of early black rock and roll of the Chuck Berry-Fats Domino-Little Richard variety--a sound which had its greatest impact among the swaggering, brash young British proletariat. When the white working classes in America finally shake off their acquiescence...
...this very willingness to accept change that COWI members seek to instill into the students and administration at Wellesley. The reform-minded students want to demonstrate that unconventional courses and girls who are not from a "middle class social milieu" are not inferior just because they are different...
Watson frequently reiterates this obsessive need to beat out Pauling. He furthermore creates the distinct impression that he and Francis Crick are scientifically inferior to Pauling--that they are fighting an uphill battle against an acknowledged champion. At one point, they realize that some problems in ionic bonding are crucial roadblocks to their attempt to solve the structure...
McCoy said he was not surprised at the student demonstrations which have followed in the wake of the teacher strike settlement. "Once these kids realize the inferior education they're getting, they may well become revolutionaries. Their parents are already on that road," he said...
Quite apart from its total inability to reflect the intellectual nuances of the Kazantzakis novel, Zorba the Greek, the musical is infinitely inferior, point for point, to the 1964 Michael Cacoyannis film, with its powerful evocation of fierce joys and harsh sorrows against the spare Greek landscape. Anthony Quinn was possessed by the title role; Herschel Bernardi merely inhabits the part like a rented room. Quinn had the sexual assurance of a goat; Bernardi talks up lust as if he were a barker for a snake-oil remedy. Zorba has to be-as Quinn was and Bernardi...