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...Punky's Dilemma, in their latest album, Bookends, they even take up the subject of draft evasion, but gently, gently. The song begins innocently: "Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake floatin' in my bowl takin' movies/ Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style, talkin' to a raisin who 'casion'ly plays L.A." And it ends on a note of tolerant satire: "Old Roger draft-dodger leavin' by the basement door/ Everybody knows what he's tippy-toeing down there...
...Wallace gets the people to weaving with him, and tells them, 'If you don't know what I'm talkin' about, ask the cab driver or the policeman... he'll tell you.' And he will. He'll be glad to use all the old words...
...unrest shows no sign of abating. Last week 180 Free University students staged a 45-hour hunger strike and talkin at a West Berlin Protestant Student Center to demand the release of a jailed anti-Shah demonstrator. Whether they achieved their goal seemed almost beside the point; the act of protest itself was the crucial issue...
...gonna whup him. I'm gonna give him a humiliation. I'll keep hittin' him, and I'll keep talkin'." So said Cassius Clay before meeting Ernie Terrell for the heavyweight championship. Why so angry? Well, Cassius calls himself Muhammad Ali these days because he's a Black Muslim, and Terrell did not appreciate the significance of that fact since he kept calling Cassius, Clay...
...slowed down to let me off, my Mississippi mentor left me with a last word of etymological mysticism: "Just so you can see some of the connections I'm talkin' about, look at the similarities between the Jewish race, and nigras and the orientals. Look at the words Judah, Buddha, and Voodah." (Voodoo with a heavy southern slur.) "Doesn't that suggest something?" he hinted. "Now you see why I say David Ben-Gurion is a Zen-Buddhist...