Word: vanguardism
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JOAN BAEZ 5 (Vanguard). Baez is still soaring high. She sings Villa-Lobos alongside Phil Ochs, a poem by Lord Byron, verses by Bob Dylan, old English ballads and the new Birmingham Sunday...
RAGGED BUT RIGHT! (Vanguard) shows how country music and bluegrass sound after they go to college and move to the city. The three young Greenbriar Boys are lively, technically superb, sometimes jazzy and even in tune as they range from the old-timey Take a Whiff on Me, otherwise known as the Cocaine Blues, to A Minor Breakdown, an original by the Greenbriar banjoist...
...momentous meeting was over, and White House newsmen were finally admitted to the Cabinet Room. Charles Mohr of the New York Times was in the vanguard, and he reported the next day that he had heard Defense Secretary Robert McNamara say, with considerable vehemence, to the President of the U.S.: "It would be impossible for Max to talk to these people without leaving the impression that the situation is going to hell...
...Good. And if this somehow suggests homosexuality, Miss Sontag is not one to deny it. "While it's not true that Camp taste is homosexual taste, there is no doubt a peculiar affinity and overlap. Homosexuals, by and large, constitute the vanguard-and the most articulate audience-of Camp." The reason: it is to homosexuals.' self-interest to neutralize moral indignation, and this Camp does by promoting playful estheticism. "The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to 'the serious.' One can be serious about...
...least two other American magazines fill, or try to fill, a similar role: Commentary and The Nation. Judging among alternatives of excellence always involve a little sophistry, but I feel relatively safe in giving the New Republic the edge in tone and universality of appeal. As a brilliant vanguard of Jewish intellectualism, Commentary seems to me a significant but almost thoroughly ethnic voice, with a tone more gloomy and academic than the problems of the sixties justify. As for The Nation, a vague nostalgia for the disputes and disillusionments of the thirties lends it a stridency which soon bores those...