Word: mods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Funk & Wagnalls; $3.50). What does a boy do when his parents won't let him have a real pet? He goes looking for a clean, neat animal-and finds a "Rarey." Equally lively is Rosemary Wells' Hungry Fred, with text by Paula Fox (Bradbury Press; $3.95). A mod book with considerable style...
...rationality is formally stimulated by the rule that sonnets have 14 lines (who among mod poets could resist the 15th?). His surrealism-Lowell's word for it, and not really the right one-is technically encouraged by a decision to abandon rhyme and relax the meter of his sonnets-roughly the equivalent of playing checkers with chessmen on a blank board. This stylistic invitation to artistic indulgence occasionally helps betray Lowell into incoherence. Surrealism, after all, is mainly for those who applaud calculated chaos as critical therapy, a place where turned-on birds may sing but no poetry...
...other talented people and creating businesses in recording, electronics, publishing, films and retailing. But Apple bankrolled stale ideas and supported a film division that never made a movie. Even the Beatles' enormous earning capacities could no longer comfortably carry the load. Last year they closed Apple's mod boutique after opening the doors for a two-day giveaway of more than $100,000 worth of bellbottoms, see-through blouses and other clothes. Then they shut down Apple's film operation. The firm grossed little more than $500,000 in its first fiscal year ending last month...
...President Maurice Hirsch abruptly announced last week that Previn's contract will not be renewed. Hirsch indicated that the orchestra's sponsors were disgruntled over Previn's outside commitments, notably his romance with the London Symphony Orchestra. Another problem seems to have been Previn's mod, madcap ways. His romps in blue jeans through the city's nightspots with Mia Farrow have been amply recorded by local gossip columnists. For his part, Previn is outraged. "The town is musically wide-open for new things," he said, "but the orchestra is run by the most conservative...
...unveiled last fall. Harvard has, says Bethell, "no official connection with Harvard University." It operates out of four rooms in Wadsworth House which, presumably, it occupied by force. Though most of the changes are superficial--new format, new schedule (tri-weekly), even a new Harvard seal )see picture)--the mod flavor extends to the writing, which is lively, and the subject matter, which is pertinent...