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...wide open to charges of hypocrisy and misrepresentation, they manage to reain enormous emotional significance. The vast majority of Americans cannot and will not reject the flag, the anthem or the pledge. It would be, in effect, rejecting aspects of themselves. Whatever militant blacks may feel, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins' directive speaks with equal commitment: "There is no national anthem for Negroes. There is only one national anthem. The national anthem is for all Americans." In a debate with a member of an East Harlem street gang, the Young Lords, at his high school graduation, Andrew Rodriguez...
...people playing with the Dirt Band are near-legendary--Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Earle and Randy Scruggs, Roy Acuff, Jimmy Martin, and so on. Vassar Clements, whose fiddling steals the show almost whenever he appears, reveals the clear distinction between a virtuoso fiddler and a fiddler who just moves his bow fast. Those like me, who have only begun listening to country music in earnest recently, will find this set a priceless introduction to the greats. Those initiated long ago may think of the collection as all of country music's all-time greatest hits...
...task of making the reorganization work falls, appropriately, on Roy Ash, who will manage not only the federal budget but the entire Executive Branch. In this post, he ranks with the other big four of the super-Cabinet: H.R. Haldeman, White House chief of staff; Ehrlichman; Henry Kissinger; and George Shultz, Adviser for Economic Affairs. Whether Ash is the man to fill this awesome job has become a matter of debate. At issue in the first place is his management of Litton, whose profits fell from a lackluster $50 million in fiscal 1971 to only $1.1 million last year...
...Died. Roy Ruggles Johnson, 89, former newsman and radio broadcaster whose 1913 scoop for the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram exposed Jim Thorpe's minor fling in professional baseball, causing the athlete to lose his two 1912 Olympic gold medals; in Worcester...
...culture. I find it hard to be nosfalgle, that's one of my problems. What I mean is writing creates a detachment towards experience, experience one wishes could be continued, could remain meaningful. Such as? Well, love of place diminishes, and you wish if hadn't. He sounds like Roy Hobbs, the wandering baseball hero of The Natural who had lost the feeling of a particular place. Yesterday he had come from somewhere. . .but today it had thinned away. . .and he felt he would never see it again." Malamud himself still finds that "I seem to go from one place...