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Other immigrants are at first disenchanted by life around them. "They envision the Israeli soldier as a superman," says Yaacov Yannai, a Sovietologist born in Riga, "and they are terribly disturbed when they see that some soldiers are undisciplined and sloppy. Dirt in the street bothers them as does the brusque, discourteous manner of some of our people. Their puritanism is dealt a blow when they go to a Tel Aviv movie and see naked women on the screen." Many complain about the relatively high price of tickets for operas, concerts and plays (rarely more than $3 for first-rate...
...wish I was green with Superman...
...year of the supergroup, 1970 will most likely go down in history as the year rock began searching for a superman. The candidates have come from everywhere-especially from such fretfuL or dissent-ridden groups as the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. One reason behind the search for individualism is that youth in America, as elsewhere, has become less interested in rock as a mind-blowing communal expression and more curious about what individual musicians may have to say. What the rock world seems to need right now, therefore, is a high-talented, low-keyed, protest...
...most likely candidate, so far, is a tousle-haired Englishman named Elton John, 23. Because he burst on the U.S. scene only four months ago, it is too early to tell whether John is a superman. But he is certainly a one-man music factory with a rich bag of assorted talents. He plays piano with the urbane primitivism of a Glenn Gould thumping out variations on rock 'n' roll's Jerry Lee Lewis. His singing style ranges from a Mick Jagger snarl to a delicate, insinuating plaint that recalls Jose Feliciano. As a composer, John...
This engaging and intelligent collection of snippets from his work, gathered to commemorate the centenary of Belloc's birth, suggests that it is time to revise the reputation of this half French but wholly British Superman of Letters...