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...idea is still something of a pipedream. But as New York City's problems multiply, its residents increasingly resent the spectacle of their elected officials pleading with smalltown legislators for permission to change the shift schedules of city patrolmen, retain rent control or decentralize schools. Albany's death grip over how the city raises and spends its own money is an even more serious matter. Thus the merits of independence cannot be airily dismissed. Lindsay's appointment of a commission to study statehood is not really as "childish" as Governor Nelson Rockefeller suggests...
Shulman's invention is just a bit more than a pipedream. The human brain insistently finds patterns where none exist. With this in mind, Shulman built his toy, a circular arrangement of Christmas-tree lights. Plugged in, they flash on and off in colors-red, yellow and blue-but in no rhythmic pattern. Still, the mesmerized viewer, if he turns on some music, may discover a pattern that matches the music's beat. If that happens, off he goes on a drugless trip. Or so hope the customers who ordered some 5,000 Op-Tickles, which are grossly...
Among other revelations about the life and times of a folk hero: the familiar story of Dylan's running away from his Hibbing, Minn., home at age 10, 12, 13, 15, 151, 17 and 18, and being brought back all but once, is strictly a publicist's pipedream. "I didn't put out any of those stories." He "didn't get a penny" from the documentary movie about him, Don't Look Back. His best songs have been written in motel rooms and cars. "I try to write the song when it comes . . . And when...
...Pipedream of the Future...
...anarchist thrust," as you put it, "leads nowhere," so does Marx's thrust, for his predicted future society, classless and stateless, without law and economic scarcity, free from disharmony and all evil, is no goal but a pipedream...