Word: sagely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert Crumb is a kind of American Hogarth, a moralist with a blown mind. The gallery he has created in underground comic books-from the gnomic sage Mr. Natural, the Priapus of the Midwest, through such creatures as Angelfood McSpade to that morsel of 13-year-old jailbait, Honeybunch Kaminski-constitutes Head City's sharpest and funniest view of American life. And perhaps the most pornographic. His fantasy unchecked by the strictures of mass circulation, Crumb gave back to cartooning the scatological vigor and erotic exuberance it had during the Regency, and then some...
Garrett Epps' "Parting Shot" paean to the virtues of the C student and his expose of the moral turpitude and inhumanity of A students, warmed my anti-intellectual heart. It resurrected for me the treasured sage counsel of Sen. Roman Hruska, on the occasion of President Nixon's nomination of Harold Carswell to the Supreme Court, that we need more mediocre men in positions of power...
...Berkeley blues scene is the best. On any given night you might have Hot Tuna, Jerry Garcia, James Cotton, Quicksilver, Elvin Bishop and the New Riders of the Purple Sage all playing around the area...
...result is the fast trading easy money of a land boom. Ranchers near Denver or Boulder can sell their holdings of sage and scrub for as much as $3,000 an acre. Colorado is now one of the nation's fastest-growing states (seventh after Nevada, Florida, Arizona, Alaska, California and Maryland). But there is a mounting fear that the developers' busy bulldozers threaten the very qualities of their state that Coloradans cherish most. Worried, the Colorado Institute on Population Problems has taken to statewide TV to urge: "Think small...
...several years have shown a tremendous growth of interest in country music, especially in the cities of the North. This interest has been manifested in various ways. Rock music has seen such groups as The Band, Grateful Dead, Burrito Brothers, Sea Train, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage, turn to styles and instruments previously reserved for southern music. Since Bonnie and Clyde and the Beverly Hillbillies series, fiddles and banjos can be heard almost every evening on some commercial. And songs and artists like Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash, who used to be known only by country...