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From the gilt edged ivory towers that line Harvard Square, a music lover almost invariably takes a rather lenient view toward musicians who either laid out a welcome mat for the Nazis or at best knuckled under. "Art and Politics don't have any connection with one another" is the most popular synthesis of this idea. I had always thought that with some obvious exceptions this was true, but an analysis of the situation from another point of observation reveals the entire relationship between such musicians and the Nazi regime in a completely different light...
...ancient national sport, in which specially bred-and-fed giants, clad only in jundoshi (breechclouts) and their traditional topknots, grunt and tug interminably, like slow-motion dancing bears. Object:' to force one's opponent down so that some part of his body above the knee touches the mat...
...There's plenty of room for everybody," assorted head track coach Jaakko Mikkola yesterday as he dusted off the Freshman welcome mat outside Briggs Cage Naturally, like any good coach, the Varsity mentor was speaking with one eye on the incoming Freshman tide, waiting expectantly to see what it would wash up in the way of track material...
...Hiya cat, wipe ya feet on the mat, let's slap on the fat and dish out some scat. You're a prisoner of wov, W-O-V, 1280 on the dial, New York, and you're picking up the hard spiel and good deal of Fred Robbins, dispensing seven score and ten ticks of ecstatic static and spectacular vernacular from 6:30 to 9 every black on the 1280 Club. . . . We got stacks of lacquer crackers on the fire, so hang out your hearing flap while His Majesty salivates a neat reed...
Author Roberts finally pins Lear to the mat as one of the culprits in our "disgraceful as well as heroic" Tripolitan War. To do so he follows Lear from Haiti to the Mediterranean, dragging Albion and Lydia along to make love on the way. Albion reaches Haiti, finds Lydia not dead from yellow fever at all, and as pretty as her picture. He also finds Napoleon's troops trying to put down Toussaint's revolution, and willy-nilly mixes in on Toussaint's side. By page 300 Haiti is left far behind; Albion and Lydia languish...