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Down to the Sea. Oklahoma's Will Rogers once cracked: "When the Arkansas, Red River, Salt Fork, Verdigris, Caney, Cat Creek, Possum Creek, Dog Creek and Skunk Branch all are up after a rain, we got more seacoast than Australia." Despite its tendency to burst its banks, the Arkansas was nonetheless a busy waterway. Keelboats explored it in the early 1800s. By the 1820s side-wheelers pushed past the Fort Smith sandbars. Before going to Texas, Sam Houston steamed up a tributary in Oklahoma to wed his Cherokee beauty. Henry Shreve, founder of Shreveport, in 1833 eliminated...
...Henry Fielding that he forced through a new censorship law. Since then, the Lords Chamberlain have had unchallengeable authority to ban plays by Ibsen (Ghosts), Shaw (Mrs. Warren's Profession), Pirandello (Six Characters in Search of an Author), Arthur Miller (A View From the Bridge) and Tennessee Williams (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof). The most notable modern playwright to run afoul of the Lord Chamberlain is John Osborne. One of his plays dealing with homosexuality, A Patriot For Me, was banned entirely;* almost every one of his scripts has had to be heavily laundered before the censor would...
...authentic simplicity of country music. This is home ground for the Stones and, among white groups, they are all but unbeatable on it. But the album still will not please listeners who lack a taste for musical graffiti. How could it, with songs like the slow, bluesy Stray Cat, addressed to a 15-year-old girl ("Bet your mama don't know you can bite like that")? Or the driving, syncopated Street Fighting Man ("Comes summer here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy")? Coincidentally, Fighting Man was released as a single during last month...
...know, is entitled "Miscellany" and consists of a captioned photograph, usually of some cuddly animal in some clever pose. The Lampoon parodied it nicely--offering an anguished little girl, left hand over her eyes, right hand holding a gun pointing down at a dead white cat which lies in the street in its own blood. The whole is entitled "No Hard Felines." But, almost as if the Poonies felt this was too subtle a dig for its prospective readers (a subset of the readership of Life?, they talk in another part of the magazine about Life's "cute miscellany snapshot...
SEVERAL other bits are like that. The white kid says a suspect must be rich because he has an eight thousand dollar car, and the black kid (picked up in the Watts riot, you remember), replies, "May-be he's not rich. I know a cat on welfare who has a bigger car." The remark might come from a militant consciousness akin to Malcolm X's when he called welfare emasculating, but considering that the black boy is working for the police, it probably is just as absurd, vicious, and ugly as it seems...