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...believers are young and old, longtime Apocalypse buffs and recent converts. The newer ones include many members of the Jesus Movement. Bumper stickers (GUESS WHO'S COMING AGAIN!) proclaim Christ's return. Jesus rock bands throb with it. A small shelf of luridly written, fiercely dogmatic books purport to document and explain it. The Second Coming Bible, a warmed-over 1924 chestnut, has sold 50,000 copies since August; The Beginning of the End has sold 81,000 since March. Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth, a compendium of apocalyptic prophecies, has sold more than...
This further obviates the need for readers in Black English, as Stewart's readers purport to be. Written English is neither Black nor White; it is just General Shared English, a mirror of the competence of all native English speakers, black or white...
...difficult to write of the music of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. It is eminently music that must be experienced, to be appreciated. An awful lot of bands purport to be completely different, or more powerful onstage, but I suspect only Mahavishnu really is. It was supposed to rain that Wednesday evening. It didn't. I'm half convinced that John McLaughlin was responsible...
...traditionally been one of the most over-subscribed Houses, have taken a praiseworthy step toward ending the aura of prestige there. The four--David L. Johnson '74, James M. Downey '74, John E. Baker '74 and Ronald Beaulieu '73--are proposing an end to the admissions procedures which purport to select the students best suited to live in Adams House...
...Jeffrey I. Baker joins the parade of your columnists who either cannot or do not read about things they purport to write about or, if they do read about them, choose to falsify or disfort what they read. His claim (Crimson, January 17) that I "suggested" a policy "to deprive the guerrilla army of its base of support--the rural population--by forcing that population into urban areas controlled by the government" is totally devoid of truth--a fact of which any regular reader of the Crimson over the past two years should be well aware by now. In response...