Word: simon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HISTOIRE, by Claude Simon. One of France's leading New Novelists turns a family history into lyric fragments that subtly link the nature of consciousness and the storyteller...
...Paul Simon...
...young were not so cocksure, it would be easier to appreciate them. In the case of Simon & Garfunkel, however, no amount of cockiness can obscure the fact that what was there at 22-when they began-is still there four years later, and in widening dimensions. The latest to discover this are those who have heard S. & G. sing the sound-track themes from Mike Nichols' The Graduate. To their sur prise, they have found that rock can be enjoyed without the fever required to fly with the Jefferson Airplane, slam with the Doors, or whip with the Cream...
...Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, both 26, are cool. Their restrained vocal style is a lot closer to the madrigalists of the 16th century than to the 20th century pop shouters, and their songs are intelligent, poetic, melodically ingenious. They are, in short, the ultimate urban folksingers...
...drop out of school; unlike Bob Dylan, they did not run away from home. They are New York City-bred college graduates who see their philosophy as basically opposed to that of the hippies. "Why is it I feel compelled to write about this pain I see?" says Simon, who is responsible for all the lyrics and most of the music. "I could split and be free and do whatever I want. I said to myself, well, why don't I? Because I'm here, that...