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...going to school in Virginia, doing that to live, but I had an ultimate goal of playing in a successful band, and I'd been thinking about political music for a while," Ruskin says. "Cambridge, especially with Harvard up in arms, seemed like a good place...
...band is composed of saxophonist/lyricist/band leader Ruskin Germino, guitarist Gardner Roberts, bassist Robert Cormier and drummer Chip Fontaine. There's also a keyboard player who couldn't make the rally and who may not stay on with the band...
...they're still working out their problems, like, for instance, the need for equipment. Right now they are using borrowed equipment, and they won't be able to buy their own until they begin getting gigs. In the meantime, Chip is finishing school, Rob and Gardner are working and Ruskin is spending all his time trying to make his band a success...
...WHOLE FUNCTION of the artist in the world," Ruskin wrote, "is to be a seeing and feeling creature...the work of his life is to be twofold only: to see, to feel." The conviction advanced in the 1860s and '70s by the French Impressionists that seeing is equivalent to feeling has been present in photography throughout its history. But only recently, especially with the sudden increase of color work among serious photographers, has a painterly love and awe for pure optical effects impressively begun to displace the photographer's traditional documentary concerns...
...books are divisible into two classes," noted John Ruskin in 1865, "the books of the hour, and the books of all time." He would have been surprised to find his declaration taken literally. Only eleven days after the ghastly events in Guyana had been disclosed to the world, two paperbacks with $2.50 price tags hit the stands: Bantam's The Suicide Cult and Berkley's Guyana Massacre. Produced by teams of journalists, the "instant" books, as they are known in the trade, feature photographs, background chapters on the Peoples Temple and firsthand accounts by reporters who had accompanied...