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Rock is disinclined to do that. Goldberg says bluntly, "I don't believe these mothers speak for anything resembling the majority," and has enlisted the American Civil Liberties Union to buttress the Musical Majority, an organization of managers, radio executives, publishers and artists, who will mount an offensive against the ratings plan. Increasingly, with Band Aid, Live Aid and Farm Aid, this is a time of social activism for rock, and this storm over ratings breaks at a time when, as Goldberg puts it, "music is getting political again, and some political forces want to put music back...
Such concern could mount as long as the government pursues a policy of trial and error, one day stressing a capitalist slogan ("To Get Rich Is Glorious"), the next a Communist one ("Sacrifice for Socialism"). The most urgent priority of what some Chinese call Deng's "cultureless (materialistic) revolution" is to find a new dynamic for China that can help ensure the stability of its society even when the inevitable economic and political disappointments occur. The pragmatists have succeeded in brushing off the ashes of Maoism. They must now find a way of enabling the Middle Kingdom to advance...
...CRACKS IN THE SYSTEM Under heavy pressure, the government takes steps toward change % THAT WAS WIDELY EXPECTED TO HERALD SIGNIFICANT REFORMS IN SOUTH AFRICA'S APARTHEID SYSTEM, HE DISAPPOINTED THE WORLD AND SOME OF HIS COUNTRYMEN BY SAYING PRACTICALLY NOTHING. LAST WEEK, AS PRESSURE ON SOUTH AFRICA CONTINUED TO MOUNT FROM EVERY SIDE, BOTHA AND HIS GOVERNMENT MADE TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS THAT COULD ALTER...
...then, at the last, in greatest torment, he launched himself into eternity by producing a work of enduring literature, a parting labor of memory and language from the man of pure action. Mount McGregor was a kind of archetype of American retrospection: recollection performed as heroic deed. Improbably, Grant became the greatest of the rememberers of a war so morally and dramatically fascinating that Americans have returned to it ever since, generation after generation, as if to a text of inexhaustible meaning...
...Rumanian scholar Mircea Eliade made the distinction between a people's "profane time" and its "sacred time." In sacred time, he thought, deeds done in historical time partake of the permanence of myth. In his dying hours on Mount McGregor, Grant labored to transport the Civil War, and himself, into sacred time. The war arrived there intact. Grant, however, has remained in a dusk somewhere between myth and Galena...