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...roll will always be/It'll go down in history?" Well, a new book called The Sound of the City (Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, $6.95 hardbound, $2.95 paperbound) is the history they were singing about. There have been other chronicles about the rise of rock, but they have been either too scattershot or too personal. The Sound of the City manages to be both enthusiastic and exact. It is the best history of rock yet published...
...come up with the not totally unpromising notion of a group of black militants taking over an ad agency and bombarding the country with race propaganda concealed inside TV commercials. That seems to have been the idea, anyway, but only traces of it have survived Downey's scattershot direction. He spends most of his time on puerile parodies of TV commercials, like one with a comely adolescent hawking pimple solution by crooning "He gave me a soul kiss/Boy, it sure was grand/He gave me a **/Behind the hot dog stand." When he does occasionally manage to work...
Simplistic to the point of demagoguery, his rhetoric is not so much overtly racist as atavistic. His speeches are a scattershot us-folks compendium of conservative complaints against the Federal Government, both major parties, bums, beatniks and Vietniks, rioters (meaning Negroes), intellectuals and Communists. With bantam-cock posture and frequent billingsgate phrases, he portentously appeals to patriotism, law and order, individual liberty, states' rights and the safety of the past. He is a pugnacious orator-a kind of ham-hock Goldwater-and one of the most effective stump speakers of the 1968 campaign...
Brave Popularizers. Rousseau apart, the brio of the age sings through its people-Gluck and Burke, Goethe and Charles III, Sheridan and Mirabeau, Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great-who occupies a chapter of special delight. The volume is scattershot with fascinating and sometimes trivial notes: Mozart early in his career used to send obscene letters to relatives; in 18th century London, privies were called Jerichos; Boswell went to bed with Rousseau's wife precisely 13 times. The Durants can scarcely resist an anecdote or an aphorism. The borrowed ones are usually the best, as for instance Diderot...
...economy weakened and its politics became Balkanized, with East turning against West, French-speaking Quebec against English Canada, and many Canadians against the U.S. After the Conservative defeat in 1963, Diefenbaker proved no more adept as opposition leader, triggering endless party squabbles and offering only a free-swinging, scattershot opposition to the Liberal government...