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...knows? Harvard may surprize this year. Perhaps it will overpower all comers. Or perhaps it will get licked with discouraging regularity. But don't count on it. I predict another roller-coaster season. I wouldn't want it any other way because by now I have become addicted to Crimson cliffhangers...
...young Austin musicians. He writes a lot about women, with emotion as honest as Merle Haggard's but a bit more realistic. Austin men are not suicidal; when a woman leaves, they survive. Michael Murphey is the most articulate lyricist. His new album contains a tune called Holy Roller, a tongue-in-cheek paean to Bible Belt religion that obliquely speaks to the question of loss of faith. Without doubt, the quintessential country rocker is Jerry Jeff Walker. His songs tend to be unpretentious autobiographical celebrations. For Jerry Jeff, life is "running naked in that high-hill country rain...
...anthology genre, does not entirely succeed in overcoming these obstacles in his new collection of pieces about the South, The Good Old Boys. For example: in an essay on his father, Hemphill writes, "now my old man...was, as we say, tacky." In a piece on the roller derby, he begins a section by saying, "If it's Sunday, this must be Louisville," and a few pages later, on Merle Haggard, he begins, "If it's Friday, this must be Dayton." He also goes to embarrassing lengths when given half a chance to describe the relationship between moonshining and stock...
...stock has been looking remarkably bedraggled lately. In May 1972 the price hit 149½, as optimism spread about the supersophisticated SX-70 self-developing color camera that Chairman Edwin H. Land had dramatically demonstrated to shareholders a month earlier at the annual meeting. The stock then rode a roller coaster (see chart) as great expectations about the camera alternated with apprehension about sales and technical difficulties. But in the past year or so, the lows have been getting steadily lower. Two weeks ago, negative brokerage-house reports knocked almost 20 points off the price in two days, pushing...
...Stoolie has a good, gaudy eye for the excesses of Miami style. It is pleasant enough idling through places like the Parrot Jungle, which features birds who roller-skate, and a nightclub for the aged, where a singer named Peppy Fields exhorts her audience to think young. The trouble is that there is a plot to be got over, and one that hangs heavily indeed...