Word: rockingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radical romanticism is what you read about in those oddly-numbered CRIMSON radicalism articles on Wednesdays. It seems, at present, to have something to do with rock music, mysticism, the carpe diem motif, and the notion that "things aren't caused, they just happen--then we react or categorize." It has a lot to do with self-expression. That's why the best and most creative people can afford to be romantics. But perhaps there are times when none of us can afford to be romantics...
Under normal circumstances, one liberates oneself through quiet thought or tremendous internal crises. Loud acid rock may help some people, it may hinder others...
...will begin printing in London this month to serve its 7,000 British readers more promptly. In the rock-music world, its influence is immense: recent praise of an unknown Texas blues guitarist named Johnny Winter impressed Columbia Records, which, after hearing him, gave him a $600,000 contract. Most of Stone's ad revenue ($70,000 last year, and rapidly rising) comes from record companies, but its reviewers have felt free to knock such hot-selling performers as Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin and The Doors...
...emphasis on quality has paid off. KPFK has won awards for its documentaries on Martin Luther King and the 1965 Watts riot. On all three stations, nearly half the program day is reserved for news and public affairs; music selections range from Bach cantatas in the morning to acid rock after midnight...
...Flood, a further torrent of talent and eloquence put mainly to the purposes of adolescent simpering, was also drowned with praise. But it is doubtful if any amount of critical bolstering will be able to shore up his latest novel, which reads a bit like an endless progressive-rock lyric in search of a psychedelic score...