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EARLIER THAT DAY Waller lounged on his hotel bed, fiddling with the volume controls on a radio tuned into WBCN. He is quiet, sensitive, faintly pleased. "What do you think of American white rock, Country Joe, the Grateful Bead?". "A bit tame isn't it?" and one suddenly realized that he was right. Waller said he thought English groups were so much more aggressive and alive, able to pick up the mantle from the great black blues and rock musicians of the past because their members are all from the same particularly troubled English generation that was born during...
...with juvenile gangs, by force or by conversion. "You should be studying this question, not badgering sincere, dedicated clerics who try only to help their deprived fellow man," said he, but McClellan gaveled him down. Lost in the furor was any realistic evaluation of OEO's attempts to tame the Rangers...
...factories are rated at 100, said the study, British factories rate only 66 -behind plants in Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, West Germany and France. British executives, said the Brookings report, often "lack breadth as well as technical training," while unions cling to restrictive practices and refuse to tame wild cat strikes...
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...first monologue appeared in the April 1967 issue of Esquire under the title A Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis. It is a short, tame outline of Portnoy's problems. Things loosened up in a hurry with the 6,000-word installment published last August in Partisan Review; called Whacking Off, it is a frantic confession of boyhood sin. Portnoy recalls how, as an adolescent, he always had to please his parents publicly, while he privately and obsessively masturbated to please himself; this experience sentenced him to a chronic condition of shame, which he begs his analyst to cure...