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...elder Coles also urged his son to "learn to be by yourself." Bob followed that advice. He enjoys life, and his hearty laugh often sounds through his modest Concord, Mass., house. But his brother observes: "He is a predominantly inward person. The whole course of his career is solitary. He is not a joiner, and he is not into the social thing." Bob himself confirms this. "I don't work with anyone except my wife, and that stems from my oneness, or aloneness." That desire for solitary enjoyment extends even to tennis; Coles plays only singles, never doubles. Besides working...
McLaughlin has chosen to work toward a musical intensity that aims inward rather than outward. There is never a wasted note, yet the improvisation by each member of the group is always present, always building and directing the music. The band's music has integrity, perhaps more than that of any other rock group. Solos are not proving grounds for technical virtuosity, but ways of building the music...
...what seemed merely the outward direction of inward frustration became far more than that this week. In case you haven't seen the films of the Ohio State-Minnesota game, don't be deluded into thinking that this was just another "flare-up." In the closing moments of the game. Minnesota's Clyde Turner threw Ohio State's Luke Witte to the floor to avoid an OSU lay-up. Turner, hearing he was ejected from the game, began swinging. Meanwhile, as Minnesota's Corky Taylor helped the stunned Witte to his feet, he kneed him in the groin and sent...
Liberal Protestants have been hurting for a strong issue to involve their flocks. Opposition to the Viet Nam War is now commonplace, the civil rights crusade has cooled and church mergers are bogging down. So-what better cause than to turn inward and take a long look at church money and where it goes? Already, the churches have mobilized their dollars against bank involvements in South Africa, copper mining in Puerto Rico and discriminatory racial hiring policies in the U.S. (TIME...
...self-destructive when we become so skeptical about our country and say, "My God, we have fouled up our foreign policies. Why did we get in Viet Nam? We do everything wrong. The United States is not fit to be a world leader. Let's turn inward and handle our own problems." We were escaping from that usual American ideal of trying to do our best, trying harder, if I may borrow from Avis. Americans?many decent Americans?just began to doubt their senses...