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...Another famous gadfly was Socrates, who said, in his Apology to the Athenians. "I ... am a sort of gadfly . . . and the State is a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life...
...rock 'n' roll. Enough of this "vulgar, Western riot music." decreed the Culture cubes. And the songwriters got their orders: Give us the stuff of social significance. So Leipzig's Rene Dubianski, one of East Germany's more enterprising pop composers, turned out a sort of double-time waltz. Dance Instructors Helmut and Christa Seifert fitted Dubianski's efforts with some quickstep choreography, and the comrades from the Culture Ministry announced a "Soviet innovation...
...flip--the sly fillip of the flute at the very end, for instance. The opening is very attractive, with the theme (almost a twelve-tone row) announced softly by the low strings pizzicato to the accompaniment of saucy raps on the snare drum. But in the middle section--a sort of languourous waltz--the sense of direction is lost and the piece begins to maunder. The final movement was transmitted in rather hazy fashion by the unsure playing of the orchestra, but it seemed much the same sort of thing. Mr. Stewart's material seems promising; had he not spread...
...college level more amuses than disturbs them. They are just another aspect of unimportant, recreational activities; they are above the concern of the scholar. One is more inclined to laugh at the way these men try to imitate their elders than to shudder over the realization that this sort of loose morality may carry over into more important fields after college...
...officials of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts were at first amused, then bewildered, and then annoyed. The Boston newspapers have headlined the story, and made Vautier into some sort of Thoreauesque hero. Yet he has no valid legal stand. The non-resident income tax law is not new, or is it unique. Twenty-nine other states have similar statutes, and never has any been seriously contested...