Word: powerful
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Again and again in The Brethren, blatant ploys or power plays by individual Justices are thwarted by the court as a whole. A poorly reasoned opinion by one Justice is hammered into something coherent and justifiable by others. During the Watergate crisis, when Burger took the court's decision on the Nixon tapes case for himself and botched it, the other Justices conspired to wrest the actual writing of the opinion away from the chief and inserted their own judgments into the final draft. True, Stewart scoffed that the final product had been edited from...
...apocryphal "infancy gospels" dating from the first centuries A.D., which, for good reason, the church never included in the New Testament. The Gospel makes the flight into Egypt a series of miracles. A mule turns into a boy; idols selfdestruct. Another apocryphal story illustrated Jesus' childhood power by noting that he struck dead a boy who had run into him and knocked him down. Joseph, in despair, expresses his fears to Mary and wonders whether Jesus should...
Society sometimes does not get the message, and that only seems to push The Who harder. The power and unpredictability of the group, along with its longstanding and much vaunted intramural volatility ("We've been breaking up ever since the day we started," says Vocalist Roger Daltrey), are a large measure of its appeal and, ironically, the core of much of its strength. It is also the source for a good deal of discomfort and antagonism among those who take rock music casually, and especially among those who would like never to put up with...
...litany of tragic burnouts; whether Pete succumbs remains a matter of strength and a certain kind of sure footed brinkmanship that until now has kept Townshend writing and The Who performing true lifeline rock 'n' roll. The members of The Who know what this music means, know its power and its necessary mutability. They also know what it means to the kids, not just a quick charge and an antic rush in a minute of concert footage but a change as potentially profound as any art can work, and even more immediate. All of this is in the four lines...
...chorus od stuttered definace ("Why don't you all f-f-f-fade away") and its refrain like a middle-finger salute ("Hope I die before I get old") put everyone on notice. In the 14 years since that single came out, The Who has lost none of its power. Townshend may have refined the song musically, shaped the message a little more deftly, as in Won't Get Fooled Again, but the spirit remains the same and just as impossible to tame. That spirit turns Won't Get Fooled Again into rock's best and most furious political manifesto...