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...murals the Communists painted shone with bright colors and sharp outlines, something like posters by Leger or Picasso. According to Kunzle, more than anything else, images of reconciliation, birth, and growth filled the murals, and images of children, because Popular Unity always stressed the past suffering and limitless future potentiality of children, born perhaps in rotting shantytowns but growing maturity with a government determined to abolish shantytowns for the future. The brigades painted murals on walls, on public buildings, outside municipal swimming pools, in a happy and sometimes even erotic style that owed something not just to Leger and Picasso...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Speaking to the People | 2/12/1974 | See Source »

...possibilities for satire were obviously limitless. After the song came out (and became one of the largest-selling country records in history), Haggard was bombarded by requests for rights to the music: rock singers wanted to change the lyrics and strike back. A sure success formula, but Haggard refused to sell, and someone had to write a new tune for "Hippie from Olema" ("we don't throw our beer cans out the window," love, peace, etc.). Arlo Guthrie used to kick off his concerts with "Okie" itself, verbatim...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: An Apology for Merle Haggard | 10/11/1973 | See Source »

...choice of targets is virtually limitless--the other pre-meds who will deliberately tell you wrong information so you'll flunk an exam, the aesthetes who think talking politics is well, you know old boy, just a mite vulgar, the rock climbers and flower children who have experienced it all and the mindless future technocrats who actually care whether Scoop Jackson of Hubert Humphrey runs for president in '76. And this even without the war criminals and apologists--after all, Henry Kissinger was a Harvard...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: High School Isn't Over | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...still may find the incredibility of an Edo, a Radcliffe crew, an Yntema, a Crimson baseball juggernaut to temper and minimize your loss, to fill the vacuum left by characters that no longer thrive in Cambridge. And most importantly, you may yet produce, in the vague and limitless four years apportioned you here, people and teams that will transcend the memories and ghosts of the departed.HESS YNTEMA...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Where Have All the Heroes Gone? | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...head of state would be a President elected for a single seven-year term, with almost limitless powers in the areas of defense, foreign affairs and public security. There would be a 200-member Parliament: 180 elected and 20 appointed by the President. Almost certainly, that President would be Papadopoulos himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Forging the Chains | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

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