Bob Dylan Revisited

IN ANY attempt to understand Bob Dylan’s works, one ought to consider his music, his lyrics and his singing style separately, since each of these three elements has different history in the development of his art. Their conjunction–in the various stages of each’s evolution–is responsible for both the wide variety of Dylan’s musical output, and […]

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There’s No Point Fighting to Lose

Between the two Soldiers’ Field meetings, a massive student defection from the SDS position took place. In part, the call to discontinue the strike sprang from weariness and the fear of academic abortion that haunts all of us. Yet it is important to realize that there was a definite element of political rationality in the […]

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The Miami Pop Festival: Silver Linings Galore in the Faint Cloud Over Rock

My first night on Miami Beach I found myself in a grunjy teen-age hangout semi-filled with its regulars. Music from a tape-recorder on a table in the center of the room with a huge lampshade hanging right over, filled with a disturbingly weak bulb. The music was unmentionable top-40 staple. The girl in rapacious charge […]

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Toward An Ethic of Political Conduct

Any system of political ethics has two functions. 1) To serve as a guide for one’s personal political conduct and 2) to enable one to consider the actions of political bodies, governments, in the past or the present, which in turn would have implications for individual behavior. Max Weber, in his fundamental essay, “Politics as […]

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Wilson Reports to SFAC; Watson Writes ‘Apologies’

James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and head of the University Committee on Cambridge community relations, yesterday outlined some of the themes of his committee’s investigations at his appearance before the Student-Faculty Advisory Council. At the same meeting a reply from Dean Watson to the SFAC’s request that he explain his remarks about “sons of […]

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Back to the Basics-Theoretics

There are different definitions of “class” in political theory. My prefered one is that a class is determined by its objective material conditions. Thus, depending on the kind of house you live in and the amount of money you have to spend on food you are a member of a certain class. The potential difficulty […]

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