Word: arguments
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Honkers & Screamers (vol. 6) is perhaps the most definitive Rock & Roll album in the series. This instrumental LP of very early (mostly around 1948) sax-led rock features Paul Williams (not the short blond mutant), Hal Singer, Big Jay McNeely (the main argument for this set) and other important sax screamers. McNeely's ferocious sax attacks coupled with some of Rock & Roll's earliest arrangements are powerful statements indeed. In a sense, this record hints at a very primative form of jazz rock: highly improvised yet controlled-by-the-arrangement sax playing is set against Jazz's traditional "walking bass...
...basis of debate is argument. But this quality was strangely missing in the Reagan-Anderson debates of last month and the Carter-Ford debates of 1976. The problem lies in the fact that we depend on a panel of journalists to prod the candidates into discussion. No journalists should be present at Presidential debates. We should let the candidates tell each other when they are hypocritical, inaccurate or misleading...
...must be seen in the light of the present system. Many believe that today's electoral process only helps us select the best campaigner with the best advertising director. With this in mind, regular and organized debates are the best showcase for voters, especially debates in the style of argument put forth above. No one can predict who will serve a strong four-year term. But with debates, we will see our candidates think. We will see them not only restate positions, but defend them as they have to for four years. Eloquence is not always the critical factor...
...argument will not end with this year's elections. Win or lose with Reagan, the evangelicals are mapping plans to expand their movement and make it a permanent and influential part of the political scene. Already some are talking about organizing for the congressional elections of 1982. -By George J. Church...
...spectacle, most of the Met's show is disappointing; and because the real subject of exhibitions like this is culture as spectacle, "The Vikings" does not offer much. The argument it mounts really belongs to a book, not an exhibition, and it is far better done by the catalogue, which is a model of serious, popular historical reconstruction. In the museum, the objects, drawn from national collections in Scandinavia, England, Ireland and elsewhere, seem overcome by the pomp of their display: case after beautifully lighted case, spread wide out to allow for crowd passage, each enshrining its sparse array...