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...further. By cooperating in recording sessions with their black mentors, by lending their names to various, more-or-less neglected saints of American blues, they have performed a gesture of both historical significance and tangible economic consequences. (Needless to say, it is an outrage that young, white bluesmen should possess such disproportionate earning power; certain old bluespeople are not even collecting their royalties on disputed copyrights for lack of legal counsel.) Actually, the idea is not new--the Yardbirds jammed with Sonny Boy Williamson years ago. What is new is the degree to which such superstars as Eric Clapton...
...exclusive option on the Age of Aquarius. But his flaccid prose, chaotic presentation, and unsupported generalizations fail to convince me. After rejecting the idea of America as a fascist and imperialist state, he ends up creating an equally far-fetched image. He tries to prove that the United States possess all the necessary preconditions for the world revolution: an obsession with modernity, unrestricted access to information, and an army of radical crusaders. Along the way he solemnly proclaims the true saving graces of mankind: world government, unlimited mass media, and technology, but he can't quite explain their unique significance...
...impression, a very deliberate one, is of culture objects cut loose from any power to communicate, or even to be noticed. There is no reality to which they connect. Their owners possess them as so much paraphernalia, like the derby hats, codpieces and bleeding-eye emblems that Alex and his mates wear so defiantly on their bully-boy costumes. When Alex swats at the Cat Lady's sculptured schlong, she screams: "Leave that alone, don't touch it! It's a very important work of art!" This pathetic burst of connoisseur's jargon echoes...
...French are in an embarrassing position. They have loudly insisted on dollar devaluation for two reasons: an increase in the gold price would raise the value of France's $3.5 billion official gold stock, and would please the nation's legion of gold hoarders, who possess many votes. The French, however, do not want too big a U.S. devaluation; they indicate that 7% to 8% is the most they could take. A U.S. devaluation means an equivalent rise in the value of the franc, and the French want to limit that rise. They are reaping trade gains...
...would have long since mastered the problems that now plague the earth; pollution, overpopulation and the ever-present threat of war would surely be a part of its past. And if it had learned to control the awesome power of the technology that it surely must possess, perhaps it would teach that secret of survival...