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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reporting for this week's cover story on the My Lai massacre was an even more difficult and painful assignment than usual for our Saigon bureau. "A mantle of almost complete secrecy descended on American officialdom in Viet Nam, both military and civilian," cabled Bureau Chief Marsh Clark. Nevertheless, Clark and his staff provided intensive coverage of the events in their area. Correspondent Burt Pines pursued the psychological aspects with doctors and chaplains at U.S. Army headquarters in Long Binh, while Stringer Harold Ellithorpe, a Viet Nam veteran, contributed the comments of Red Cross officials plus his own observations...
...profoundly spiritual appreciation of the value of life. One of his most powerful compositions is the Slavonic Mass-a soaring, jagged work for chorus, orchestra and soloists that has sometimes been used in Czech Catholic liturgical ceremonies. The Mass was a salute to nature, not God, and as usual Janáček's critics missed the point. After its premiere, one wrote sardonically that "the old man" was apparently turning to belief in God. Janáček answered with a bristling postcard: "No old man, no believer. Not till I see for myself...
...three finest songs on Led Zeppelin's first album illustrate the foremost capacities of the group. "Good Times Bad Times" is based, as is usual with their songs, on an energetic riff rather crudely syncopated but irresistibly developed. Page plays a brief solo characterized by his enormous intervals and rapid triplets: Bonham employs complex drum pedals; Jones adds a sinuous independent bass line: and Plant insinuates a tone of bemused disconsolation into the song's eternal situation of calumniating fate. "Dazed and Confused" deals with incoherent man in the face of a latter-day Cressida. After a sufficiently stunned introduction...
...choice is the late, atypical Rouault Head of a Girl-almost certainly a portrait of Josephine Baker, the girl from St. Louis who discovered early on that Parisians above all people realized black is beautiful. Rouault rarely did portraits of specific persons, and to Cummings this departure from his usual practice suggests "a special relationship" between artist and sitter...
...Jagger and company were busy proving just how well they thrive on adversity. Selling out the Chicago International Amphitheatre twice in one night with its inimitable brand of gritty, Negro-derived blues, the group re-established itself as one of the most durable and original forces in rock. As usual, the music tapped the dark, demonic strain in human emotions, and as usual, the central figure was Jagger, gaunt in black jersey, jeweled belt, red scarf around the neck, black pants with buttons down the side, and Indian moccasins for easy leaping...