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...Fred LaBour, music critic for the Michigan U. Daily, offered what he calls "a working hypothesis" about the alleged hoax in an article last Tuesday...
McCartney, according to LaBour's story, was found pinned under his Astin-Martin, "with the top of his head sheared off," four hours after he drove off on a rainy night in November, 1966. "The surviving Beatles decided to keep the information from the public for as long as possible ...a Paul look-alike contest was held and a living substitute found in Scotland," LaBour wrote...
...ideological justification independent of its practical advantages. The concept of creating a "new man" -for that is an acknowledged aim of the Offensive-is pivotal in classical Marxist-Leninist thinking about society at the stage of communism. Communism, writes Lenin in State and Revolution presupposes "both a productivity of labour unlike the present and a person not like the present man in the street..." Development of the means of production increases the productivity of labor and permits the transformation of man's consciousness. Abundance eliminates the need and desire to accumulate material things, and men "voluntarily work according to their...
...cellars are damp and paint is blistering and wood is rotting. In evoking a gray, totalitarian world, and in showing how, no matter what minor fluctuations the government undergoes, the poor never escape that world, this novel reflects Orwell's paternal influence. Politics, particularly the opposition politics of the Labour Party and those groups to its left, become the novel's initial concern. Yet, for Mrs. Lessing, politics are now something of a dead end. She sardonically delights in unearthing their hidden contradictions that scurry about in the dark like beetles under stones. On a superficial level, there...
...must not be too hard on Much Ado. Just as Shakespeare needed the experience of writing the inferior Love's Labour's Lost before he could produce this middling play, he had to write Much Ado and the similarly middling As You Like It before he was able to follow them up with the miraculous gem he called Twelfth Night. Still, Gill and his charges had me believing for a stretch of two-and-a-half hours that Much Ado is really a good play--and that is no mean achievement...