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...that time the group completely dominated the U.S. rock scene. If Bob Dylan was the generation's prophet, C. S. N. & Y. was its social conscience. Their songs about campus murders (Ohio), conspiracy trials (Chicago) and racism (Southern Man) were uncompromising, but the message was balanced with more tender lyrics like Teach Your Children and On the Way Home...
...story collection Laughable Loves. The book is light, wry and wise. Over and over again, Kundera sets up the classic situation of sexual farce: A realizes intuitively that B is interested, and therefore swells with vanity and lust; in reality, however, B's interest is in C, whose tender signals are meant...
...shop eats my bread and behind my back says, 'a sonofabitch.'" To complete the group there is the gentle failure of a father who lives in the past, and the small-time gangster with a heart of gold who can't express his more tender feelings and who is no more a crook than any capitalist...
...than endanger the rights and sovereignty of the 400,000 Greeks and 115,000 Turks living on Cyprus--a fact which the U.S. government can ignore just as it now ignores the repression of the Greek people by an illegal junta that is propped up by American aid. The tender peace that now exists in the entire eastern Mediterranean powder keg is threatened by Athens's illegal aggression. The smoldering strife between Greece and Turkey could explode as a result...
...Roman Catholic and a self-disciplined man who worked his way through college, the commander grouses good-naturedly, but with an undercurrent of emotion, about long hair, pop-music Masses at church and the pubic hair that has sprouted in Playboy's gatefold since he left. He is tender and tentative as he tries to get to know his kids again, tries to fit himself back into the world of backyard barbecues and small talk about Little Leagues. His wife, meantime, has tried to explain to the boys "that I was his girl friend as well as their mother...