Word: mind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would like to know what will go through Marley's mind as he sings those lines, especially the third. He will have to feel some sense of irony as he sings that line to the thousands of guilt-ridden observers--thousands of full-fledged members of the system he has condemned over and over again in his songs with fiercely religious righteousness...
...then again, it's hard to know what ever goes through Marley's brain. He smokes enough ganja each day to send his mind into a permanent orbit around Neptune. In interviews, he is often incoherent. In a new book called Reggae Bloodlines, Stephen Davis, former associate editor of Rolling Stone, asked Marley how he felt about his Rastafarian friends who point to Marley's car as a sign of Marley's increasing materialism. Marley responded, "Well, BMW not the system. Babylon the system. some say BMW mean Bob Marley and Wailers. BMW mean...British Made War car or something...
...greatcritic James Agate once wrote of Julius Caesar: "The play's second half is one long anti-climax. Shakespeare left his play in two halves which no company of actors, however skillful can succeed in putting together." Were he alive and here, I think Agate would change his mind...
...bill, supported by five of the nine city councilors, would require a permit before major renovations could be made to apartments in the city. Cambridge's rent control board would grant the permits, and the legislation instructs them to bear in mind Cambridge's "housing emergency" in their decisions...
...must be balanced against the larger fact that this freedom does not exist for the benefit of the press but for the benefit of all. In the majority of countries, judges are in effect only executioners and journalists are only Government press agents. This reality should be kept in mind as the courts deal with the American press and its rare and fragile rights...