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What he tries to do, with only limited success, is to open up a nonpolitical space in the emptiness of those political generalities, where he can produce the art that is, he constantly claims, separate from his statements on the socialist soapbox, and yet justifies his views aesthetically. He insists very stubbornly on the distinction, saying that he would "never write a poem about the Social Democratic Party," but finds no contradiction in claiming that a book like The Tin Drum helps explain why Hitler came to power. The line between explanation and instruction is very fine and discovering where...
...them have selected pictures of their families or pets to adorn their checks, but some have seized the opportunity for more imaginative self-expression. A Chinese customer, for instance, ordered checks illustrated with a portrait of Chairman Mao. An advertising executive displays a photograph of himself seated on a soapbox, while another patron adorns his checks with a bottle of his favorite whisky. The manager of a San Rafael branch of the bank uses enigmatic checks that show a gorilla gazing Hamlet-like at a skull. "I'm not sure what it means," he admits...
...Feminism includes equality with men in the job market and in clubs, though it is not restricted to that. Already, women have invaded countless dens once reserved exclusively for the lion: there are women at McSorley's Old Ale House in New York, women in soapbox derbies and stock car races, women cadets in the Pennsylvania state police. Women have come to protest what seems to them to be the male chauvinism of rock music. An all-female group in Chicago belts...
...predecessors-Averell Harriman, Henry Cabot Lodge, Bruce-all treated the talks seriously, partly because U.S. domestic politics demanded it, and partly because there was still hope that the Communists would negotiate. Porter's quite different mandate is to stop the talks from being used as a Viet Cong soapbox-even if it means being beastly to the Communists...
...there's one thing though, that separates a real heavy from just another freak musician, it's the live performance, the concert. It's an event of an almost political nature--the stage becomes the performer's soapbox and he must sway the crowd using both his presence and his musical message. Thus, last Monday night at the Music Hall, the 'audience anticipated the arrival of Beck as if he were a retired politician returning to the political arena...