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...always been the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision to build a strong pressure group out of the poor of the country, strong enough to compete with the interests that run the nation now. His idea was to bring that rag-tag pressure group to Washington, to somehow "pressure" Congress into recognizing poverty as a problem and more important, into recognizing poor people as a political force...
...drawing that most attracted Degas. As Mrs. Janis, who put the current exhibition together, has pointed out, Degas devoted so much time to the monotype in order to free himself as much as he desired from the classical constraints of his innate sense of line. With a rag he was able to wipe away ink and compose in broad spaces. Privately modeling in this medium, as in the sculpture, Degas was able to counterbalance his draughtsmanship and realize form and volume. Publicly, the result was the marvelously transitory, captured, psychological quality of his work. This sense of spontaneity made...
...Rag," the laughter is meant to combine with tears. "Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box," David sings toward...
...success in New Hampshire is uncertain. Friday night Joe did call McCarthy "a groovy guy. He's like a genius." There is no doubt, however, that Joe and the Fish are sincerely against President Johnson and the War. In their "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag," the Fish decry the War with an alternating background of "sock it to me" and "do wacka do" by singing...
There is another, more subtle, more insidious excuse for not worrying about Avatar's fate. "It's a bad magazine, the writing is poor, and there's that kook who thinks he's God in it." To begin with Avatar has improved immensely and personally I really like the rag. Go into the University Restaurant some afternoon when a new issue has just come out. Everyone has a copy and many a professor has been caught chuckling over its refreshing tone...