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...music is mostly mediocre. Some of it, like that of Isaac Hayes, who breathes out his lyrics like Holy Writ, is clumsy and pretentious. Rufus Thomas is the only one who really makes things work. He performs Funky Chicken, strutting smartly about the stage splendidly attired in shocking-pink cape with matching shirt and Bermuda shorts and white vinyl boots as if he will never come home to roost. It is a performance of ebullient self-parody, one that the kids in the stadium seem to enjoy...
...think we scared Harvard a bit too. Radcliffe had been a stronghold to be conquered, courted, and panty-raided. But those sharply writ symbolic fields of action for sexual interplay are gone. We rub shoulders in coed bathrooms and hang out in each other's bedrooms with an armpoking buddy-buddiness. Cohabitation has bred a defense against its natural tensions: the unconscious disavowal of our sexual differences. Harvard and Radcliffe have identified...
...also be a curse. At its most grotesque, it has led otherwise rational men to argue that massive killing and destruction of property are justifiable because they will bring about a tranquil future. At its most bathetic, it has helped to create an American cult whose holy writ is the Great Insurance Policy in the Sky which helps you "lay away" something for college when you are 16, for medical school when you are 18, for marriage when you are 20, for retirement when you are 25 (with a pre-natal clause for nursery school and a rider which will...
...senior prom writ large. Dress was formal, the music was hard rock and soul, long hair was common. Hordes of Nixon youth crowded onto the dance floor beneath psychedelic lights and cheered for their President every once and a while. A few lonely folk roamed around looking for other lonely folk, but most had come with friends. Senator John Tower (R-Texas) signed autographs and accepted good words from young GOPers in the lobby...
...housewife who lived near by in Globe, Ariz., and made what the Supreme Court subsequently called "remarks or questions of the irritatingly offensive, adolescent sex variety." The boy had no lawyer, the housewife never publicly testified, no hearing transcript was kept and no appeal was possible. It took a writ of habeas corpus to get a review of the case. Gault could have received a maximum jail term of two months if he had been an adult; since he was 15, he was committed to the State Industrial School until he became 21. Two years passed before the Supreme Court...