Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Couple of Nuts," traces the destruction of a young couple's marriage due to the interference of an older couple. The episode's interest lies mainly in the narrator's (and therefore Zelda's) outlook--the marriage couldn't have lasted; disaster was courted by the couple's youth, success and innocence. But the story is also full of keen observations and haunting comments...
...born in Jerusalem, the son of a textile merchant. He was a member of one of the city's best-known clans, the Husseinis, and a distant relative of the Grand Mufti, the Moslem spiritual leader who led the first revolt against the British mandate. As a youth, Arafat was involved in the Arab-Israeli fighting of 1947-48 and became a refugee when his family fled to Gaza. While studying at the University of Cairo, Arafat became president of the local Palestinian Students Federation, and served in the Egyptian army during the 1956 war. Later he moved to Kuwait...
...unpromising story of three English women living in crabbed intimacy in a Liverpool row house: two sisters, Nellie and Margo, plus their brother's daughter Rita, 17, who came into their care after her mother died. Unmarried Nellie's indignation colors their lives. Having sacrificed her own youth to the care of her mother, she holds Marge's brief, unsuccessful fling at marriage in daily contempt. Nellie sews dresses at home. Margo works in a munitions factory and drinks-when she can afford to-because she is fiftyish, fat and frustrated. The time...
...seeming disappearance of hip youth culture, the milieu in which rock thrived, makes it difficult to present a fair evaluation of the new Rolling Stones release. To the extent that this album recreates the spirit of the sixties, it seems out of date; to the extent that it captures the spirit of 1974, it seems funereal. To synthesize the two seems impossible. Rock and roll at its best is a two-way phenomenon, requiring--even in the studio recording process--some kind of psychic interaction between an audience and a performer. If the listeners are largely deadheads, it's unreasonable...
...skipping the whole thing and spending your money instead on the new J. Geils Band album or Rejuvenation by the Meters, both of which rock mercilessly and put It's Only Rock 'n Roll to shame. If, on the other hand, you relate to the current version of the youth culture, if your idea of a rocking good time is digging on Seymour Martin Lipset's greatest hits, if you think that Marty Peretz is the last word in warm and soulful funk, if you would rather listen to "War" by Stanley Hoffman than "War" by Edwin Starr, if they...