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...image. He switched the emphasis from Broadway show albums and the "easy-listening" music of Andre Kostelanetz and Mitch Miller to contemporary rock. Columbia already had Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel and the Byrds under contract. Davis greatly expanded that list by adding such innovators as Janis Joplin, Laura Nyro, Santana, and Blood, Sweat and Tears. Rock moved from 15% of Columbia's volume in early 1967 to more than 50% now. Last year Columbia's domestic division had sales of about $200 million, and pretax profits almost doubled, to $25 million...
...revolution of the '60s was no help at all. Robin Morgan, a founder of WITCH, says that "the sexual revolution was hell on women. It never helped us?it just made us more available." The West Coast Redstocking Manifesto reports that "our bodies are male-occupied territory." And Laura X (she has abandoned her surname) says: "The pill is the final pollution, the exact analogue of DDT, of gadget-trapping you into functions, not organic wholes. Men have become no more human since its advent: according to many young women who have made that unenviable leap from private property...
...less specific about the poets who influenced him most: Brecht, Bridges, Cavafy, Frost, Graves, Hardy, David Jones, Lawrence, De la Mare, Marianne Moore, Wilfred Owen, Laura Riding, Edward Thomas, William Carlos Williams. The vastness of the list tends to obscure its two surprising omissions...
Also elected were Laura K. Bachrach of Wellesley and North House (Social Relations); Barbara Gale Darwall of Gloucester and South House (English): Susan A, Kotlier of West Roxbury and East House (English); Shelley B. Resenbloom of Brookline and North House (Psychology): Ruth L. Sharpe of Northampton and East House (Biology...
...Laura R. Benjamin '70, a spokesman for the Winthrop group, said the cur-rent participation is "too little to feel good about but too much to close down...