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...made a remarkable comeback," McCollom said. "He won all the time trials at our Woodstock training camp [in December] and now he's solidly our best...
...concerts at Carnegie Hall. The kids gave up their Christmas leisure to eat and sleep music. So did Sasha, along with Mischa, Felix, Contralto Maureen Forrester and Violinists Itzhak Perlman and Jaime Laredo. The result was a contrived yet carefree musical happening that bore some resemblance to a classical Woodstock. As a young second violinist put it: "The vibes were good...
...Wanted List were those of political radicals. The Weathermen were in hiding. Angela Davis was captured at a Howard Johnson's motel in Manhattan. Many leaders of the Black Panthers were on trial, in Algerian exile ?or dead. Anger remained, but it became reflective or confused. Celebrants of Woodstock became the survivors of Altamont, the California rock festival that ended in a knifing death, and the depredations of the drug culture clouded Aquarian visions?Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, both cultural heroes for the young, fatally overdosed themselves with drugs. The hippie Camelot promised by Charles Reich...
...Woodstock. Michael Wadleigh's film re-creation of the historic three-day concert was part celebration and part sociology, an altogether epic feat of nonfiction film making...
...back. Suddenly, someone pulled a gun. The Angels went after him, knifed him down and did him in. Those close enough to the incident were appalled. Those who were not, quickly caught the mood of tragedy and left the concert silent and shaken. It was hard to believe that Woodstock had taken place back East just four months before...