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...with their innumerable shaggy imitators from the Rolling Stones to Herman's Hermits to the Pharaohs. On the whole, the music was improved, the lyrics slightly more comprehensible. With Bob Dylan, rock also blossomed into a hybrid called folk-rock, but folk itself stayed with its perennial purist, Joan Baez (Farewell, Angelina) and the young American Indian Composer Buffy Sainte-Marie, who as a singer is a sort of Cree Callas, with more conviction than voice...
...Hansberry, has too many minds of its own. It is overloaded, overwritten and overwrought. It is about guilt and guilt collectors, venting their oral-compulsive laments in a Greenwich Village setting. Through the play troop the Quixotes who venture into political quicksands, the soiled hipsters of success and the purist false priests of failure, self-deceiving bohemians, homosexuals, husbands, wives, artists and whores. Everything overlaps and the play has diversity without direction. It endlessly circles its own conversation...
...East 57th. Mondrian depicted nature-before he stripped it to its bare essentials-in scenes of Dutch windmills, rivers and forests. These drawings and oils, done between 1905 and 1908, show keen insights and rhythmic vitality in a self-assured style, but offer little indication of the plastic purist he was to become (through May 23). For that, see "Mondrian, De Stijl and Their Impact," at Marlborough-Gerson, 41 East 57th, where his spatial austerity and its potential for beauty is fully realized in his own and in the works of 22 followers. Through...
...basic; it comes with bucket seats, padded dash, and leatherlike vinyl upholstery), anyone who wants to turn his Mustang into a little Thunderbird can load it with just about every luxury option Detroit has, from automatic transmission to a big V-8 to air conditioning. Finally, the sports-car purist who wants performance and more horsepower can spend up to $3,500 by adding a European-style stiff suspension, disk brakes and a fourspeed manual transmission. Next year Ford will also add a fastback model to the line...
...negotiate. The English version read "discuss." Panamanians insisted that since the working language of the OAS meetings was Spanish, their version was correct, and suggested that U.S. Envoy Martin, who does not speak Spanish, was confused. At first, the diplomats considered using the word discutir. But a Spanish-language purist objected that discutir implied argumentative discussion. Thus negociar, a softer word that means both discuss and negotiate, was substituted. Unconfused, Ed Martin at no time committed the U.S. to formal negotiations. He did, however, make a special point not to rule out treaty changes coming out of the discussions...