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...Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation...
Moreover, these imitations aren't as creative, as personal, as emotionally rewarding as his own fourmany compositions on Giant Step. His replay of John Hurt's "Stacker Lee" is not as moving or as true to the word-structure of the song as Hurt's. His streamlining of Leadbelly's "Take Your Hands Off Her" recalls the outrages the Stones committed on the Reverend Robert Wilkins's "Prodigal Son." He shouldn't have tried to update it; Leadbelly's version has the unity, the weight, the intractability of bedrock. Whereas Taj's version of "Good Mornning, Little School Girl...
When I was younger and wiser I used to fall alseep listening to my brother play country songs on his Stella. I know "Stacker Lee" and "Prodigal Son" the way Hurt and Wilkins played them; they're part of my feelings about structure and right order. Taj doesn't have to copy them to evoke these feelings. His own new songs can bring an audience back into that true structure, that exploratory engagement with their material...
...First the stately Queen Mary, too stuffy for enjoyable Caribbean cruising and too expensive to maintain on the declining transatlantic run, was sold to the city of Long Beach, Calif. After its 1,001st Atlantic crossing and a nostalgic final voyage around South America, the 31-year-old three-stacker will be converted into a floating museum and entertainment center. Last week, lured by the publicity value of such a venture, Honolulu bid to get the larger Queen Elizabeth next year when she is taken out of service for similar reasons. The world's largest passenger ship...
...transmit facsimile handwriting and sketches, 5) an automatic merchandiser that dispenses clothing, makes change from dollar bills, 6) an electronic system linking an airline's ticket offices throughout the U.S., 7) a cart for big-chef barbecues, 8; a plastic balloon building, 9) a 50-ton log stacker, 10) a tree crusher, 11) a transistor radio as small as a sugar cube, 12) a language-translating machine, 13) an underwater torpedo retriever, 14) a movable island crane, 15 ) a high-speed ditch digger, 16) a "pickle picker," 17) a hay pelletizer that makes cookies for cows, 18) a home...