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Necessities of Life. Goodman's solutions were often visionary, even outlandish, but some were the forerunners of today's social programs. Long before some psychiatric reformers advocated closing down the old-style mental institutions, Goodman argued that the inmates should be allowed to roam the countryside as "local eccentrics or loonies." Years before Richard Nixon, among others, proposed a guaranteed minimum income, Goodman urged that the necessities of life-food, shelter, clothing, medical care-be provided free to everyone. The state would require that a citizen give six years of his life to producing those goods, then allow...
...Woodstock," and "Starting A New Life," formed the core of Tupelo Honey's first side, its affirmation of domestic life. In the former, there is the line, "Lord, don't it get you, when you're bound to roam--Hear you children singin' daddy's comin' home." The latter speaks of moving, but not of the kind of roaming fancied by troubadours. It is the moving of a family unit, "We gotta move, way on down the line,--Girl, we been standing in one place for too long a time." The feeling is reinforced by "You're My Woman," following...
...Becky has been trained as a "wrestling lion": she neither bites nor uses her claws. Her parents were used some years back to protect the deer compound. Becky will likely conduct her nocturnal patrols on a long leash. Elgin admits that she might be more effective if allowed to roam free. But that, he says, would scare the baby elephant...
Frenzy is the first film that Hitchcock has shot in England for more than 20 years. Like a prodigal at home again, he lets his camera roam lovingly across London-Tower Bridge to Covent Garden, Hyde Park to Scotland Yard, where Chief Inspector Oxford (Alec McCowen) is trying to solve the unsavory murders of a dozen London women who have been strangled with a silk...
...Protestants were building up toward a potentially explosive demonstration this week. The right-wing Ulster Vanguard planned a protest march in Londonderry to demand that the British army and Ulster police reassert their rule over the barricaded "no go" areas of Bogside and Creggan, where I.R.A. gunmen have been roam ing at will...