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...message like that of "Blowin' in the Wind," the song with which he chose to begin the evening concert's second half? The one time Dylan attempted manifesto was two years ago with "George Jackson," a song which for blandness alone deserves its present obscurity. But the plea for freedom still rings powerfully, even if in middle class, individualistic terms...
...drama unfolds with undistracted simplicity, eloquence and force. In Act I, Julian reveals the anguish and hysteria to which he was driven by Alan's abandonment. The two are reconciled and go to bed together. In Act II, Alan's wife Jacqueline makes a touching plea for Alan's return, but he refuses. In Act III, Alan discovers the seamy side of Julian: that he has been the most indiscriminate sort of male prostitute. Yet the two men finally agree that to deny their love for each other would be to make life not worth living...
William Geraway was about as buried as a live man can be. Convicted of murder in 1968, he was serving a life term hi the maximum-security prison at Walpole, Mass., without possibility of parole. The Supreme Judicial Court of the state had rejected his plea for a review. He was also in solitary confinement-voluntarily and indefinitely -because his testimony against alleged killers in two other trials had led to reports that mobsters were offering $50,000 to have him murdered. Geraway, 37, would probably still be in that deadend fix were it not for Steven Duke, a quixotic...
...judgments against all who disagreed with his own rigid concepts of acceptable ideology and permissible?but never permissive?behavior. Then, faced with overwhelming evidence of his own criminal corruptness and petty greed in accepting graft from Maryland contractors, Agnew successively claimed innocence, lashed out at his accusers, copped a plea on income tax evasion, and quit...
SUDDENLY people are listening to him. President Nixon goes on television telling the public that the Energy Crisis has arrived and that we must make sacrifices. People listen and, even more astonishing, obey. Liberals and conservatives, industrialists, ecologists, moralists, Malthusians--all have gone along with Nixon's plea for patriotic frugality. Lights are switched off with a fanatical passion, room temperatures drop, and motorists creep along the highways at 50 miles per hour, or even 45 or 40 among the more patriotic. Energy--that substance that Einstein told us is so abundant that a tiny bit of matter gets multiplied...