Word: theres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the establishment of communist rule, Romania enjoyed an extremely vigorous cultural life. In the pre-communist years it produced such luminaries as: Brancusi in sculpture, Iorga in history, Lipati and Enesco in music, and better-known playwright Ionesco. Today there is a general stifling of creativity and the life...
Georgescu's message to Romanian intellectuals is "to speak out: intellectuals have the duty to speak up when they are there." There is a faint hope given by a few courageous dissidents, but in general the prospects for changes are just plain bad. "The only way is to leave," he...
There is some historical interest in Up and Down--Sanchez includes some fascinating anecdotes and hitherto unreported incidentals. He tells us, for example, that Ronnie Wood met his wife Chrissie while listening to the Stones play at the Crawdaddy. He tells us how Marianne Faithfull, actress, singer, and onetime "good...
Sanchez's animus stems from the puritanical morality of the ex-junkie. There is nothing so tedious as a converted man and his born-again morality:
OF COURSE, SANCHEZ made his own life, chose to live with the Stones, chose heroin the way Keith did, and Jagger didn't. But assume the Stones did ruin Sanchez's life, even the lives of people like Robert Fraser or Marianne Faithfull. What of it? It doesn't matter...