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...album contains a lot of great songs. There aren't too many surprises here--Seeger and Arlo run through all the old standards, from "Joe Hill" to "deportees" and "Guantanamera," all done competently. The newer songs are less impressive; Arlo's "Presidential Rag," a Watergate song, has a point of view on the subject which is slightly less interesting than that of the House Judiciary Committee. Nevertheless, if you're looking for a good collection of songs of the traditional American left, this album will serve...
...chairman, Curator William Rubin, picks up the champagne bottle and takes aim. The grizzled chief engineer, Critic Clement Greenberg, puts down the disc grinder with which he had been stripping an American dreadnought, the U.S.S. David Smith; he wipes away one gruff tear of pride on an oily rag, then jerks the levers...
...hours of May Day, but the war in Vietnam ended with less drama than we might have expected. What of the drama the war produced in the U.S.? David Rabe's Sticks and Bones has usually been considered the best of it, with other works like Medal of Honor Rag being placed by critics "in the tradition of Sticks and Bones." The play is about the psychic warping of a blind Vietnam veteran and the havoc he creates back home with his family. In Joseph Papp's original Public Theater version a few years ago the play had a hypnotically...
JACKSON'S anguish is revealed, in an hour long conversation with a psychiatric specialist, in a way that makes Rag more of a documentary than a structured dramatic work. There is no real interplay between the patient and doctor--who seems to be no more than a vehicle for exposing Jackson's story to the audience. Jackson offers an incident or impression and the doctor probes until we have learned the significance. From such an intense, personal conversation we would expect some rapport to develop between the men, but the only development in the play is that the story becomes...
...ending comes too fast and seems to pat as if Cole couldn't resist the temptation to tie up the loose ends, but it indicates that there is no ample cure for Jackson and veterans with similar problems. And if they deserve our attention, to does Medal of Honor Rag, not because it is a flawless play, but because it presents the veteran's predicament with an eloquent directness and honesty...