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...learn someday that he can never hope to be a Supreme court justice, or the leading teacher in Property, or the head of the Peace Corps, or even the senior partner at Rolly, Polly, Gamin & Spinach. Perhaps it is just as well to face a kind of preliminary and inconclusive sorting out even while one is in law school, for this may make it easier to face a sorting out that he confronts all through his life in a competitive profession and a competitive world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grade Reform | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...particular, is such a confused area is that there are no critical standards by which to judge the music. White rock musicians today have nothing, in Dylan's phrase, to live up to. And the audiences will pay in turn to be insulted (The Mothers), bored (The Ultimate Spinach), assaulted (The Fugs and MC 5), ignored (The Jefferson Airplane and Procol Harum), and urinated upon by a lukewarm assemblage of beligerent flower-cretins. Entertainment is left up to a very few white groups who know how to act onstage, such as the Who, the Stones, the Rascals, and most...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: Fading in Rock Phantasmagoria: A Personal Autopsy of the Boston Sound | 1/22/1969 | See Source »

...feet, flashing his hands around and laughing. I looked at Billy, our rhythm guitarist, who shrugged. It was obvious that this Douglas cat belonged in Bridgewater. I just said yeah, I guess we ought to, and Douglas disappeared from my life until the next fall when the Ultimate Spinach album came out. I was with the Bead Game by then, fighting hard to get ahead, playing exclusively our own music, and I read, as I stood there holding this green vegetable psychotic album in my hands, "Top-40 isn't where it's at, any more." The Ultimate Spinach...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: Fading in Rock Phantasmagoria: A Personal Autopsy of the Boston Sound | 1/22/1969 | See Source »

Vitasoy is a milky brew that is enriched with vitamins and offers 5.9 gm. of protein in every bottle, or as much as a dish of spinach. A 6½ oz. bottle costs 310, compared with 4 4/5? for the same size bottle of Coca-Cola. Sold either chilled in warm weather or warmed in cold, Vitasoy has captured 25% of the Hong Kong soft-drink market. This year an estimated 78 million bottles, second only to Coca-Cola's 100 million, will be sold from sidewalk stands, sampans and grocery stores for a total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: Sipping Soya Through a Straw | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...only to one another but to all other animals, and to vegetables and minerals as well. Carried to its logical extreme, her doctrine would make a cannibal out of everyone who eats lunch, and many Theosophists have become vegetarians, presumably on the theory that cows are more brotherly than spinach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theosophy: Cult of the Occult | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

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