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...refined by Potomac Associates, a public policy "think tank" in Washington that will publish The Limits to Growth in March. After translating it into a dozen languages, the Club of Rome will use its influence to place Limits in the right hands, where its message may influence policy and stir public debate...
...homage at the Cultural Center is a lugubrious affair, but an interesting one nevertheless; for it records in great detail how one gifted painter went backward under pressure, like an irritated crab, into a historical impasse - and has stuck there ever since, snapping his crusty pincers at every stir in the water...
...most esteemed figure among them is the poet. "Six or seven words, generally enigmatic, may come to a man's mind. He cannot contain himself and shouts them out. If the poem does not stir [people], nothing comes to pass; but if the poet's words strike them, they all draw away without a sound, under the command of a holy dread. Now he is a man no longer but a god, and anyone has license to kill...
...Quentin belongs in American folklore as the kind of place where George Raft and a thousand other cons would pound their tin cups to scare the screws, a Cagneyesque sort of stir with even a certain nostalgic romance about it. Its reality, of course, has always been bleaker. Before Warden Clinton Duffy took over in 1940 and turned "Q" for a time into a model for penal reform, the vast sand-colored fortress on San Francisco Bay offered sadistic guards, shaved heads, the airless "hole" for solitary, dinner out of buckets and a gallows painted baby blue. But then...
Side Five is what's causing the great stir in the music world, though. It is the only live recording in existence of Bob Dylan since his accident, and represents (hopefully) his return to the stage. Following the format of the concert, he gives note for note renditions of "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall," "It Takes A Lot to Laugh, It Takes A Train to Cry," "Blowin' in the Wind," "Mr. Tambourine Man," and "Just Like a Woman." In his backup band are George Harrison on electric guitar, Ringo Starr on tambourine, and Leon Russel on bass. Singing...