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...blessing?) of uncritical fans. Few groups have. But I was struck, in hearing them speak on WBCN and at a press conference, by their genuine innocence, which bordered on naivete. One would expect musicians who have been in the business as long as the Turners to come on with blase, weary, super-cool. But not in this case; Ike and Tina seem terribly young at heart and possessed of artistic ideals. They are excited by the turns their career has taken, yet firmly enough grounded in a tradition so as not to lose their heads. And considering how successfully they...
...would ask her to endure the pain-memories of her mother's silent death, the knowledge that her four-year-old daughter is locked away in an asylum where they pump chemicals into her brain, the horror and self-loathing Maria experiences in the course of a routinely blase abortion-alone? To escape, or perhaps just to survive, Maria "fixed her imagination on a needle dripping sodium pentathlon into her arm.... When that failed she imagined herself driving, conceived audacious lane changes, strategic shifts of gear, the Hollywood to the San Bernardino and straight out, past Barstow, past Baker, driving...
...would ask her to endure the pain-memories of her mother's silent death, the knowledge that her four-year-old daughter is locked away in an asylum where they pump chemicals into her brain, the horror and self-loathing Maria experiences in the course of a routinely blase abortion-alone? To escape, or perhaps just to survive, Maria "fixed her imagination on a needle dripping sodium pentathlon into her arm.... When that failed she imagined herself driving, conceived audacious lane changes, strategic shifts of gear, the Hollywood to the San Bernadino and straight out, past Barstow, past Baker, driving...
...Asia, the Nixon Administration chose to further estrange itself from the nation's campuses. Vice President Spiro Agnew, speaking to Republicans in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., unleashed another blunderbuss attack on colleges as "circus tents or psychiatric centers for overprivileged, under-disciplined, irresponsible children of the well-to-do blase permissivists" (see box, following page). President Nixon, in an impromptu talk at the Pentagon, referred to radical students as "these bums blowing up the campuses" and contrasted them with G.I.s fighting in Viet Nam: "the greatest kids-they stand tall and they are proud." The distinction between...
ONLY nine months have passed since man made his first lunar landing, and many Americans have already become rather blase about moon shots. But to the thousands of spectators in Florida and millions in front of TV sets around the world, last week's Apollo launch-televised from close up for the first time-had obviously lost none of its awesome drama. "Good luck, and head for the hills!" called Cape Kennedy launch control to the Apollo crew. Apollo 13 did just that. It lifted off into the hazy Florida skies in a cloud of flame and, only...