DEEP IN THE winter of 1965 the Beatles released an album titled Beatles for Sale that contained such songs as “I’m a Loser,” “Baby’s in Black,” “Mr. Moonlight.” They were nice songs all and strikingly performed as usual, but that album left one with the distinct feeling that the Beatles` were treading water, that they […]
It’s always very tense before a show starts — for the performers, doubts about another road audience, for the crowd, the tightness of anticipation. Preparations continue in the last minutes on amps and mics and lights. In a blue-carpeted backroom deep within the Boston Tea Party, the Jeff Beck Group kicks around a squishy soccer […]
RADICALS view American society as being dominated by a relatively small group of people–an elite, more or less tightly co-ordinated, that benefits considerably from the present system. Under this upper crust lies a vast semi-oppressed white lumpenproletariat and a clearly oppressed black proletariat. Such an analysis of the situation leads a radical to the conclusion […]
James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and head of the University Committee on Cambridge community relations, has agreed to meet with the Student-Faculty Advisory Council today. The meeting will be open to the public and is scheduled for 4 p.m. at the Winthrop House junior common room. SFAC members had expressed a desire to exchange […]
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The Student-Faculty Advisory Council yesterday asked Dean Watson to explain his recent statements that a small group of radicals is behind most serious student unrest at Harvard. The council voted 22-3, with two abstentions, to ask Watson to “prepare for this body an explanation of the statements attributed to him in the October 1 CRIMSON.” […]
The Student Faculty Advisory Committe will consider a change in its membership at its first meeting of the academic year today. The committee, set up last year in the wake of the Dow demonstration, will meet at 3 p.m. in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. The student members of the SFAC were elected by […]
IN AN ARTICLE entitled ‘Sexual Role Exploitation,’ in the first issue of The Old Mole, the writer suggests that one way of restoring dignity to male-female relationships is to have girls pay their own expenses when they go out with boys. This idea is sensible since it would assure that girls would go out only […]
JOHN LENNON claims that the Beatles’ songs do not carry any messages and says he resents people who try to interpret them in that way. Neverheless, his latest song, ‘Revolution’, is so explicily and brutally to the point that one cannot help but sense a morning in it–and be painfully startled by this particular message. […]
The Who are not very deeply known in this country. At a time when flashy incoherent groups like Cream, and as yet unrealized ones like the Doors are raking it in, this is a strange blindness because the Who are artists of the noblest rank. All four of them–Peter Townshend, lead guitar, Roger Daltrey, singer, […]
How does one illuminate a political situation ? Without making any claims that this is a rigid a priori formula it would seem that there has to be first, a dramatically interesting story that occurs at a human level, a story resonant with analogies so complex and yet, at moments, instantly and strikingly identifiable, that […]