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Alice Cooper is Vincent Furnier actually a fairly square preacher's son who delights in home cooking and wearing Levi's, but onstage as Alice he is the king, queen, unicorn and Godzilla of schlock rock. His show is a grotesquerie of sick sex, gory violence and ear-splitting cacophony. Last week at the San Diego Sports Arena and the week before at the Los Angeles Forum the scene was the same. The lights dimmed and the crowd (size: 12,000 to 22,000; age: 15 to 25) was allowed to roar for a full five minutes before...
...world is to learn how to survive. These teaching fellows know many things, and yet when they hear a smart new idea they are willing to move a lot of furniture to fit it in. In a class one day our teaching fellow was telling us about Dr. Levi-Straus who thinks that not only can everything in life be known by studying words, but by studying the order of words. I reminded this teaching fellow of the philosopher's remark, that "one picture is worth a thousand words." He must have seen the truth in my observation because...
...MEAN to imply that there is nothing to what Dr. Levi-Strauss said. Dr. Herrnstein, the genetics specialist, told me that anyone with the chromosomes of both the great trouser manufacturing family and the famous Viennese composer was sure to be a smart guy. However, I tend to side more with Dr. Freud and see that Dr. Levi-Strauss's having the first name "Claude" forced him to compensate creatively for what he lacked as a person. In fact, I think some of the flaws in Dr. Levi-Strauss's thinking personally and structuralism generally stem from an unconscious overcompensation...
...David Ben-Gurion, Premier and Defense Minister for most of Israel's first 15 years, resigns and is succeeded by Levi Eshkol...
Correspondent Burton Pines visited Jesuit universities throughout the Midwest. There, young priests in turtlenecks and Levi's discussed their concern with the order's role in the secular community, while older priests, sitting in book-cluttered offices, worried over the relaxation of Jesuit discipline. "Most were delightfully irreverent toward the papacy and church hierarchy," reports Pines. "Their intellectual self-confidence, plus their legendary commitment to logical, rational thought, made every conversation with the Jesuits a heady trip, leaving me with a genuine high...