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William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester, N.H. Union Leader, said last night he thinks "it is baloney--utter nonsense" that recent Supreme Court decisions impinge on the freedom of the press...
...recent study by the University's Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation shows grade averages have not increased at Harvard since...
...subject Zappa has always handled most masterfully is mass America: crass commercialism, media hype, and the other things that numb our minds. From his songs of 1965 "Who Are the Brain Police?", to his more recent commemoration of television "I Am the Slime," Zappa has to his credit rock's choicest statements on mass euthanasia (though admittedly, because their babies are treatin' them bad, other songwriters rarely address such topics). Zappa's critical eye looked beyond the government and Vietnam to the covert "moral faseism" of American society. While others lambast politicians and corporate honchos, he criticizes everything and everyone...
There are some songs that work. Relative to pop music's more recent trends, Zappa recently observed, "Disco music makes it possible for mellow, laid-back, boring kinds of people to meet each other and reproduce." Marshalling his talents to forge a particularly scathing attack on disco, Frank wrote "Dancin' Fool," which is due to be spun at Boston-Boston any night now. In this song, some lame guy decides he'd rather be a fool and get laughed at than not dance at all. "I got it all together man / With my very own disco clothes,hey! / My shirts...
Nearly 500 people gathered at Boston Common Saturday morning to protest the recent series of murders of young women committed in the Roxbury-Dorchester area since last January...