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Rock music for the past five to seven years has been directionless and unmotivated. The fact that power is coming back into rock [June 26] delights me. People don't write songs, at least good songs, about oil embargoes, world economic problems, détente or other assorted unromantic difficulties. I yearn, crave, ache for the days of rock as a religion, with its electricity and excitement. A new religion might grant those of us with '60s mores and ideals living in the disenchanting '70s at least a brief reprieve from the raisin-less oatmeal that spews...
That was too much for Desai. He called an emergency meeting of his Cabinet and threatened to resign unless given a free hand. In the end, he was authorized to write letters to Narain and Singh, asking for their resignations. Both complied, followed by four junior ministers who quit in support of the two dissidents...
...troubled Easterner write about the wide-open sex scene of California? Entertainingly. Marcia Seligson knows the tribal beliefs: monogamy and jealousy are bad; self-enrichment, looking for space and living with the authentic flow of the moment are dynamite. She has also taken the trouble to learn psychobabble, the indigenous tongue. "Guts are good, heads are bad," she writes. "You may never start a sentence with 'I think' ... If you begin with 'I feel' you can get away with atrocities." Group-sex enthusiasts seem to spend so much time and energy in pouty encounters that Seligson...
...they too pick and choose. "You get a little flak from older readers who want to read the same columnists every time," says Edwin Guthman, editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, "but we pick the four best things every day. One of the problems is that so many write about the same thing." Adds Anthony Day, editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times: "We go by interest and topicality, not by name...
...pages, editors now look around for speeches or articles by specialists to cover many subjects. "The Washington column is over the hill a little bit," the Chicago Tribune's editor Clayton Kirkpatrick believes. "The world is more complex, the issues are more varied. Mark Sullivan used to write fundamentally about politics, but that was before politics became so embedded in science, in economics, in sociology...