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Whatever the Rolling Stones had in mind, Gimme Shelter is the universal order of the rich to their tax lawyers. Nearly everyone is aware that some Texas oilmen regularly "drill away" their entire tax indebtedness by charging off the same amount as the cost of new drilling projects and at the same time keeping themselves comfortably afloat on the high tax savings allowed seekers of black gold. Less familiar is the fact that Christmas-tree growers successfully persuaded Congress to write a special provision into the tax law granting capital-gains benefits for their product after the IRS had ruled...
...announced goals of the community is a good conscience for all. In this respect they are more human than the satisfaction-maximizing fictions of Walden Two. Thus, drugs are prohibited, material order and punctuality demanded, runaways promptly returned to the police, and, in general, "mixed-up people looking for shelter" are kept out of the community, in favor of "normal people looking for something significant to do with themselves." The normal people have also decided that the "mentally ill" have no place in Twin Oaks--they would, presumably, sully the healthy atmosphere of the "sane society...
...often the contents come to resemble acrobatic acts and freak displays which can find common shelter only under the circus big top. What can one say about statements like...
MONDAY: Gimme Shelter (1970) Mick Jagger, the Rolling Stones, thousands of screaming teenyboppers and the Hell's Angels get their yaya's out in this documentary of the 1969 American tour...
...Perhaps it is true, as your article "Pet Pollution" said [Jan. 29], that man subconsciously identifies with and relishes the promiscuity of his pets. I myself may have done so. Nevertheless, after having worked a year in an animal shelter putting as many as 50 "adorable" and "cuddly" kittens and puppies to death daily (humane compared with death in streams, roadways or public dumps), I realized the tragedy of such a surplus of life...