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Whatever the outcome, the lads will be free again to pursue lighter pastimes. Since each Beatle is still personally worth $5,000,000 to $9,000,000, they have plenty for the pursuit. As Lennon explains: "The point of Klein is for me not to be a businessman - to take it off me back so I don't have to worry about the details...
Father Figure. Hawk reached his peak of popularity as a musicians' musician during the early '40s. But he kept abreast of later changes, from swing to bop to the cooler, lighter sound of the '50s. He also became something of a father figure to young players, whom he entertained in his Manhattan apartment overlooking Central Park, talking music or baseball and cooking for them (he loved all kinds of beans-and popcorn). Almost always in the background there was the sound of classical music; Hawk loved Bach and Beethoven as much as a strong jazz solo...
...boat this spring. The other three were Moore, Rod Petersen, and Kim Kiley, Petersen was in the freshman heavyweights' top boat in 1968 but switched to the lights during the past fall. Tom Dryer, the J.V. stroke, and teammate Os Erikson are two other sophomores who switched to the lighter squad this year...
...Ronson Lighter. The imaginative leap from adolescent affluence and argot to a perception of teen-age attitudes is what gives Absolute Beginners its moral energy. The novel would be no more than a cheerful nature walk from the Elephant and Castle to Notting Hill if Maclnnes did not see beneath all the apparent irresponsibility. What he finds is the fusion of caring and a concern for style that leaves young people unimpressed by questions of race or war or money...
...thinking of racial tension or predicting an Enoch Powell. Maclnnes set Johnny and a white friend loose in an African and West Indian shadow world full of jouncing characters with cross-rough names: Mr. Peter Pay Paul, Mr. Karl Marx Bo (a future Prime Minister for sure), Mr. Ronson Lighter, and villainous Billy Whispers. The result was British high-low comedy, presented with affection and delight. When he took these people among whites who even then self-consciously affected Spade guests, the satire said everything that could be said about white liberalism. And because Maclnnes abandoned his tape recorder, relying...