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...radicals would use the judicial system to settle most such disputes, "Movement" people are in a philosophical bind; they do not recognize the "pig courts." Last week, in the spirit of radical efforts to establish alternative institutions, a board of counterculture arbitrators handed down what it called a "Karma alignment" that resolved a financial argument between Abbie Hoffman and a former associate...
Karmic Deficit. At the two-day closed hearing in New York, both principals informally introduced witnesses. They were allowed to cross-examine and tell their own versions of the dispute. After three long, deliberative sessions, the arbitrators reached a decision. "Karma," they explained, "is a Sanskrit word that refers to the moral and spiritual consequences of our actions. There is a Karmic deficit here that Abbie should compensate Tom for. Abbie has made similar mistakes in the past, and we want to encourage him not to make them again." Abbie's tab for that offense...
...last learned what millions of angry Americans had known all along?that the Weatherman was little more than an underground collective of grimly moralistic Bonnies and Clydes. Analyzing Weatherman tactics in a forthcoming Ramparts article, Writer David Horowitz observes that the terrorists overlooked the political consequences of their deeds; karma was their trip. Revolution had almost ceased to be a strategy of social change and had become instead its own justification, a cult, "a yoga of perfection." The result was that the Weatherman had lost, not gained ground for the movement. Their self-styled revolutionary vanguard had far outdistanced...
...John singing and playing either guitar or piano (on which he is barely competent), backed by bass and drums. Once again, Phil Spector is listed as producer, but Lennon seems to have wisely restricted him to adding echo and nothing else, giving the whole album the sound of "Instant Karma." All the songs are intensely personal, some of them resembling the feeling of "Julia." (One cut. "Look at Me," uses almost the same melody.) More interesting, however, is that half the songs have some kind of political content, which implies that John may be ditching his simplistic "Give Peace...
...played Brahms." He was a coiled, compact and energetic Israeli of 24, and one of the best-known young pianists in the world. She was 21, and already Britain's leading cellist, a tall, smiling, shy English lass with a stunning kind of farm-fresh beauty. Instant karma. Two weeks later, Barenboim decided he wanted to marry Jacqueline. Six months later he did. Thus began one of the most remarkable relationships, personal as well as professional, that music has known since the days of Clara and Robert Schumann...