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...written by others or by herself, she unfailingly opts for those that frame her own view of life. "If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me, it's good," she says. "But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is about?just living and having to get along...
...lower court judges who eventually try the case of Flast et al. are sure to do their homework on another Supreme Court decision handed down last week. That case involved the question of whether New York, or any other state, can require its public school boards to lend textbooks to students in all private schools-including religious schools. Members of the board of education for both Rensselaer and Columbia counties argued that such programs violate the First Amendment ban on "establishment of religion." Last week the court upheld the state. New York's law, it said...
...producers, as well as those of the network brass. Six days after the Robert Kennedy assassination, Jerry Paris, who directed the gentle and funny Dick Van Dyke Show, but who also had acted in The Untouchables, took advertisements in the Hollywood trade papers announcing: "I will no longer lend my talents in any way to add to the creation of the climate for murder. I have looked into the mirror. I see myself and the face of our industry. I do not like what...
Equally inflammatory to unstable minds is the rising hyperbole of U.S. political debate. Race, Viet Nam, crime- all lend themselves to verbal overkill, not so much by candidates as by extremists: the John Birchers, the Rap Browns, the most ardent war critics, the Ku Kluxers. The evidence is everywhere. In Dallas, Assistant District Attorney William Alexander snarls on a TV show: "Earl Warren shouldn't be impeached-he should be hanged." Cries Rap Brown: "How many whites did you kill today?" Lyndon Johnson is routinely excoriated as a mass murderer. Robert Kennedy was branded by San Francisco hippies...
Other sports had an equally rough time in the autumn of 1917. The CRIMSON found need to lend a somewhat morbid justification to the national pastime: "We are living in a period of universal sadness and a tonic like the World Series is a good thing. It is indeed a case of 'making merry, for tomorrow...