Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAST TIME AROUND (Atco). The Buffalo Springfield have scored again on the last album before they split up. Their transition from folk through folk rock and now to country-western has been smooth going, which is a tribute to their exceptional talents. Stephen Stills, who wrote five of the songs, sings Four Days Gone with down home grit. It is a story song about a boy on the run from "government madness" who can't tell his name because he's "got reason to live." A tinny piano tinkles in the background while a steel guitar twangs...
WEST (Epic). West spent eight months rehearsing in a deserted theater in Crockett, Calif., before coming up with this album. The music they found there is warm, lyric and natural. Its sound is country-western flavored strongly with folk. Michael Stewart, the vocal backbone of the group, has written a fast-fingered guitar interview with Donald Duck that takes a poke at the Disney menagerie and a swing at President Johnson to boot: "Goofy has so much to say, he changed his place with L.B.J." Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, the album's lead cut, shows what...
...race has barely begun, and 1968 has proved repeatedly?and jarringly?that it is not a good year for predictions. Only 100 of Nixon's votes are "safe," most of them coming from Western and Midwestern states where he is all but unassailable. And though Humphrey's only truly secure territory is the District of Columbia (3 votes), his candidacy is not altogether bankrupt...
...trade and cultural exchanges, to influence the Soviet leadership, which seems to be divided on the Czechoslovak issue. Says Zorza: "There are people in the Politburo saying, 'We have to push them hard because we have already expended so much political capital.' The proper amount of Western pressure could help the moderates win the day. However, this is a dangerous game, and by carrying the boycott too far, we could damage the liberals. The timing has to be precise. Not too much. Not too little...
Culture Magnet. For the long run, the U.S. should continue its efforts for detente. That is not because it condones the Soviet acts in Czechoslovakia, but because the magnet of Western culture and trade-as it has already done in Czechoslovakia-must inevitably create a climate in which liberalization will be too great a temptation for the Communist countries to resist. This is particularly important now because the Russians themselves are being forced to admit that dissent is present-and growing-among the intelligentsia, who realize that the only way to a more efficient modern state is through greater freedom...