Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALICE'S RESTAURANT. Director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) has transformed Arlo Guthrie's rambling, hilarious talking-blues record of a couple of seasons back into a melancholy epitaph for an entire era. With its combination of wild humor and lingering sadness, Restaurant is one of the most perceptive films about young people ever made in this country...
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...Your story, "The Dilemmas of Power" [Aug. 29], contains a garbled paragraph that is misleading and embarrassing to me and my company. Observations about the alleged harmful effects of fossil-fuel burning on public health appear" to be erroneously attributed to me. You should correct the record...
...secret to protect the rights of Kennedy and the other witnesses. In either case, the public, which is presumably a court to which every politician must appeal, would be denied an open and formal explanation. Kennedy might have gone ahead with the Edgartown inquest, risking rumors on the record in order to account for his conduct clearly once and for all. Now he has for a time formalized his silence and only postponed his day of reckoning with the public-a day that must surely come if he intends to remain in public life...
...much else, Shaw was often preposterous. One after the other, as the dictators appeared, he applauded Mussolini. Hitler and Stalin -in the no-nonsense manner of a Fabian socialist committee-on the grounds that they were cleaning up a mess. Such obtuseness in a man whose life is a record of devotion to decency in human life can be explained only as an aberration, perhaps a dramatist's occupational disability of putting his own words into the mouths of other characters. Lenin saw Shaw as "a good man fallen among Fabians." Shaw, perversely, seemed to regard dictators as good...