Word: visione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RACES. The nation's racial problems "are now hampering its clear vision in dealing with the rest of the world," contended Writer Harold Cruse (The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual). Black Power, said Cruse, is a necessary step on the way to eventual integration; the Negro must develop his own identity before he can successfully join U.S. society as an equal. Cruse described Black Power as "a belated attempt to get an economic and political share of the American pie," but insisted that it is uniquely American and unrelated to European theories of class struggle. Although most participants denounced...
Their lyrics connect the natural and supernatural, transmuting homely details into talismans of the beyond. An ordinary object like the stone in The Iron Stone evokes a vision of Atlantis, of a divine jester called "Sir Primalform Magnifico," of "forests and centaurs and gods of the night." The meandering songs, some of them 25 minutes long, contain dreamlike cascades of cryptic imagery, as in Ducks on a Pond...
...Ancient Mariner. Says Dickey: "I had to make a choice, and I chose to give the reader a better sense of continuity. I don't see why there always has to be a barrier between art and journalism. Journalism can be a great vehicle for a true poetic vision...
...occurred early in October, when robbers held up the restaurant where Barrios worked. Doctors at San Jose's O'Connor Hospital patched up his abdominal flesh wound, removed most of a shattered .22-cal. bullet from his brain, leaving him with only a slight headache and blurred vision. At that point, follow-up X rays sent Barrios into a spin for-dear life...
...Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, called an "all-American bullet-headed Saxon mother's son," is a cunningly simple ditty that flashes with hints of America's burgeoning violence and shrinking mythology. Cry Baby Cry demonstrates anew the Beatles' knack for rendering an Alice-in-Wonderland vision in a melancholy modern vein. Dear Prudence superimposes Indian-style drones and swooping tones on childlike lyrics ("Won't you come out to play . . . greet the brand-new day"). It adds up to an invitation to love, to hope, to feel "part of everything...