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Image, in fact, is Chaban's greatest liability and probably the main reason why, despite the endorsement of the Gaullist Party, he trailed Giscard last week. Throughout his 29-year political career, Chaban has striven to appear youthful, athletic and energetic-and succeeded all too well. Many Frenchmen regard Chaban, who was a national tennis finalist in 1965, as a "playboy," not sérieux enough to be President. Married three times, in a Catholic country where divorce is still a political handicap, he has become saddled with the nicknames "Beau Jacques"and "Charmant Delmas." Moreover, he still...
This editorial has striven to open to the reader a logical and reasonable explanation for the happenings within the City of Cambridge within the late 1960s. There is room here for only an outline; it is up to the free scholars of Cambridge and Harvard to fill in the specifics of detail...
Musically, the album is also a continuance. From the beginning of his solo career, Stewart has striven to achieve an atmosphere of barely controlled chaos within his music. He succeeded almost immediately. And to insure that success, he's kept his solo album band intact. The crudeness he achieves on record is as much studied as it is technical. And much of that crudeness stems from Mick Waller's drumming. Harsh and brazen, solid and simple, Waller is the backbone of the sound. To add to its crudity, the drums are mixed very prominently; when you hear a song...
...aesthetic eye goes foraging in the wake of historical disaster. Having striven for 300 years to dispossess and wreck the Indians with gun. bottle. Bible and treaty, white America is now focusing an unprecedented degree of interest on their artifacts, which. like deposits on the verge of a shrinking lake, mark the point from which cultures drained away. A magnificent collection of these relics, selected from the so-called "historical period" of North American Indian culture (17th to 19th centuries), is now on view at Manhattan's Whitney Museum...
...poet, Tate looks at the modern man who has been cut off from his past and whose heart has been overwhelmed by his mind. As a man, he has always striven to be the kind of poet who does not forget his past and who speaks from heart and mind with equal feeling...