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...nations, it is true, there is firmer leadership than half a decade ago. Margaret Thatcher, Britain's new Prime Minister, has taken a decisive, confident line, though her countrymen must wait to see where it leads. Germany's Helmut Schmidt and France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing govern their countries with an effective margin of strength and popularity...
...British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has long implied that the U.S. was being wickedly self-indulgent by using so much energy, and in off-the-record conversations top government aides in West Germany and Scandinavia were furious. "Another breach of promise," declared an adviser to West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, referring to Carter's follow-up on his pledge at the Tokyo summit to produce a tough energy policy...
...Schmidt looks back on the Cambridge folk scene and its voyagers as tellers of need. They are the real breed of folk tradition, musicians who formed direct experience into...
...hear kids today listen to music and get lost in it," von Schmidt complains, 'and escape into it." They'll say that folk's boring or its too soft or too slow, and I'll say, 'Well don't you think it's more sensitive?' But when people need to figure out what's going on in the world and who they are, when the energy crisis comes on so bad that middle class people are out in the backyard chopping up wood, I think you may see a resurgence in this type of music. It's sensitive...
THERE IS SOMETHING ETERNAL about folk music--especially the blues-- which makes you believe everything von Schmidt says. Musicians like Muddy Waters and Mississippi John Hurt--and even Pete Seeger--have been playing their music to adoring ears for generations. The best folk becomes so personal and compassionate that in a world of strangers, it's better than a friend...