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Sandy Vogelgesang's The Long Dark Night of the Soul: The American Intellectual Left and the Vietnam War is not the first nor will it be the last book that asks how and why the intelligentsia failed to arouse the nation's conscience. Nor is Vogelgesang's the book that will provide the answer to that question...
...provides a great deal of information and insight into the evolution of intellectual thought during one of America's most controversial and eventful decades. But it does little to answer the questions with which future works on the subject must grapple. That The Long Dark Night of the Soul both begins and ends with the same question is an indication that it is ahead of its time. It was written when the impact of the experiences and events it describes are not fully known or calcuable. Vogelgesang has traced the history, but the conclusions have yet to be drawn...
Harvey Brooks and the Fabulous Rhinestones are at Sandy's in Beverly Thursday through Sunday. The Rhinestones are one of those big, brassy soul revues--not one of the best, but still pretty good stuff...
...mewling muddle of saber-toothed helplessness represents Woman Wronged. Nothing will do, she announces, but that Brian divorce her and marry Wendy. This is horror at its most gothic-an intermittently tolerable mistress about to be transformed into an utterly frightful wife, complete with infant-and Brian's soul is filled with dread...
Funkadelic Parliment was kind of poohpoohed in these columns on Tuesday, but on further listening the error of our ways becomes obvious. The group is a big and brassy soul band that handles instrumentals better than any other R&B combo around. If you like Kool and the Gang-type music (how could you not), you'll love Funkadelic Parliament. They're playing through Saturday at Paul's Mall in Boston...