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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever-changing pretensions. But because his malice barely emerges, John's performance can perhaps best be defined as comic basrelief. Similarly, Peter Ginna is almost endearing as the burglar who not only convinces his captors to release him but persuades them to take up a collection so he can start out again on the right track. The role is executed with considerable charm and color leaving the audience a bit baffled at what consequently appears an unjust fate...
Dedicated folk fans frequent the Listening Room often; some claim it is the place to catch the up-and-coming stars. Rumour has it that Bob Dylan got his start at Passim. "Yup", says Donlin. "Passim has been here for only ten years, but eighteen years ago, when the club was called 47, Bob Dylan used to come...
...quasi-reggae tune called Scratching (Ruskin: "say sort-of reggae, don't put down that I said quasi-reggae"), the Radios launched into "Modern Day Leper Man," a song about the Three-Mile Island near-disaster, before finishing up with "South Africa." Because the march was not ready to start on time, they did "South Africa" again, a little stronger the second time...
...four more years. Unemployment statistics seemed as important as body counts had a few years earlier. Former militants, confused and depressed, retreated from politics for a few years. "The quietness came because people didn't know what to do," Berg says. "It took a couple of years to start thinking about politics again," he admits, adding that even now he isn't quite sure how best to translate thoughts into action...
...provide our own leadership, develop our own goals." Now, he says, the time may have come for broader alliances between the races, the sexes, and between workers and students. Gabriella, too, cautions against romanticizing the '60s. "You've got to look at the past realistically or else you just start again and the world keeps going around in the same circles...