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...BULK of this book, however, is about the LNS, and Mungo tells his story with talent and gusto. Unlike Jerry Rubin, he can write, and some of his passages transcend the steady stream of daily escapades. He talks with warmth about the people: Marshall Bloom, the co-founder of LNS who single-handedly ran the anarchic organization, and whose singularly dynamic personality eventually led to the split in the LNS; Little Stevie Wonder, a 16-year-old photographer-hanger-on who ended up dead in a car accident, strung up on heroin; Bala, Bala, another co-founder and jack...
Ritual usually develops out of unsatisfied material needs, and the subsequent desire to transcend want. Tribal rain dances were a plea to whatever controlled the material welfare of the people. The Mass represents a similar dissatisfaction with mundane needs, if only because they have been left unsatisfied, and the desire to build a larger world where such want is insignificant...
...agree, we have conquered all need, and we can purchase everything we want, provided we work hard enough. Of course, the things we want the most will cost more, so we will have to work harder for them, like jewels and cars. There is no longer any need to transcend the material because we have conquered it. Everyone agrees this is "The Greatest Nation On Earth...
...Fifth Symphony which followed was too overwhelming to take directly after another work. All of the usual deficiencies of the BSO were there-the winds (especially the clarinets) were abysmal, the horns frequently missed their cues, the unisons never came off in unison-but Rudolf managed to transcend all of the structural defects that have gotten into the orchestra in the past decade. Rudolf has a brilliant sense of pace and timing, and it displayed itself in this work. He skillfully constructed a great performance by avoiding most of the characteristic failings of his contemporaries. He never forced his pace...
CHANGE (1967): As part of going modern, each nation in Asia and in Africa wishes to establish its identity. Nationalism is one expression of this search for identity-that is a Western concept. The West, having invented nationalism, now seeks to transcend it-or at any rate to moderate its claims. What is certainly true about the West is that we ourselves are going through a period of radical change. The gulf between us today and us tomorrow may be an even bigger gulf than the one between East and West. It is said of today's youth that...