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...have turned out as I have. That day is going to be a long time coming, for I am not about to explain my life in the primitive vocabulary of this ignorant writer and her Dear Friend. How can you reach people who are obliviously struggling underneath a welter of preconceived notions and prejudices, people whose mental neon flashes when you come near them, Black Experience...Inner City...Hypertension..Sickle Cell Anemia...all important subjects, and all, when treated in a simplistic, reductionist way are rendered into the contemporary analogues of the watermelon...
...amazing bootleg Out On Bail, with an interesting snatch of new material: "Everything is Turning to Gold," the B side to the "Shattered" single, and a new single from lead guitarist Keith Richards. Generally good, but good or bad, still the Stones, and so far better than the welter of nugatory bilge they waste vinyl on nowadays...
Fortunately, not all the energy that has flowed into popular music in the past two years has spent itself on spectacles like the Dead Boys' lead singer hanging himself after a show. The welter of bands that rock critics have labeled "new wave" includes musicians as well as media manipulators, geniuses as well as hypocrites...
Scarcely a decade ago, such a welter of tongues would have been unspeakable in an American public school. For more than a century, the great melting-pot theory decreed that foreign-speaking children be taught solely in English to speed their assimilation into the mainstream. The children of 50 million immigrants were forced to master English that way. Some 22 states even outlawed teaching in foreign languages...
...press reports to the contrary. But C. Kilmer Myers, the bishop of California who plans to license Barrett as a parish assistant, replied, "I don't know what she does behind the doors of her bedroom. If I were Ellen Barrett, I would sue you all." In a welter of confusion, the bishops finally tabled by 66-48 a motion to disapprove Barrett's ordination...