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PAGE TWO- Friday, December 3,1971, OLD GOLD AND BLACK ·STUJ>ENT Rl&.HiS, • • Kinks Lend I lark I I 1 AL.Pl0$1 FP.£6 Bright Spot RUSS BRANTLEY JOHN EWO'I"l' FRITZ HEIDGERD To Holiday Editor Managiug Edftor Bullless MaDager By MARK HOFMANN Staff Writer NANCY ANDREWS SUSAN GILLETI'E HELEN TYREE Assistant Edfton One of the bright spots of an otherwise Jl'etty ·grim ·'lbanksgi.vlng vacation was the release of the latest kinkS' album, "Muswell Wlnston.Salem, N.C., Friday, December 3, 1971 Hillbillies." like most of the previous Kinks releases, "Muswell Hillbillies" has a lot to say of Importance, but unfortunately it's only too likely that it will be overlooked by all except the most dedicated Kinks freaks. 'lbe albmn represents a new direction for an old group. 'lbe Klnks,long concerned with A Flawed Rights Bill British social problem~ have changed from their unique rock f'Onn to · a sort of IQJillsticated country soWJd unlike anything I I •' In recent years, state and federal tnese questions, but they might be heard with the possible exception of "Dead Flowers" by the stones. A foreshadowing o( legislation has been passed to turned around to say "no" also. · - this fonn presented itself in the song "Got to guarantee something approaching This is small stuff, yes, but how be Free" from the "lDla vs. Powennan and full citizenship to persons eighteen large it might seem later. the Moneygoround." Although the style has changed, the Kinks to twenty-one years of age. It is high Right after that section we read: still voice their principal gripe In their IQngs: time for this University to do the "9. Membership lists are con the subjugation of the individual to society in same. fidential and solely for the use of the the name of his own good. O>mplalnts about The "Student Bill of Rights," organization except that the names the drabness of the new Industrial state against the somd of twanging guitars takes a passed Wednesday by the student and addresses of officers may be little getting used to, but Mr. Ray Davies is " legislature, almost gave a good, first .required as a condition of access to as effective as ever in getting the point acroos • impetus to an ordered drive for full University funds." Nice, this, for it Two of the songs deal directly with the citizenship for students in the :sanctions the violation of civil law welfare state, ''Twentieth Century Man" and "Here O>me the People in Grey." 'lbe former college community. It was a first :prohibiting secret organizations. piece rants at ''the age of machinery, a step, but a little more time in 'The Klan would approve, but · we mechanical nightmilre,the wonderful age of preparing the bill might have saved wouldn't, and we doubt that the bill technology, napalm, hydrogen bombs, will get far with that piece in. biological warfare." 'lbe other deals with a much time later, and might have specific Incident, the forced movlilg of a Thea gone further toward guaranteeing And, for the nittiest of the nits, yoiDlg bohemian in the name of IU'ban anexhl.t the successful adoption of this what shall we do with (Ill-B): "9. renewal. graphic old DIBl necessary statement. Unless under legal compulsion, Davies whines about the tendency of our race to swap freedom and responsibility for a Reynold The shortcomings of the Bill, as it personal access to a student's files Back Home In Florence sense of security, regardless of how fake it to 4:30 J stands, lie in its failure to think shall be denied to any person might be. 'lbe citizen must sacrifice privacy TheeJ for arotection, life is controlled by a faceless Ferdinm through all the implications of all the making an inquiry." Baltlmo1 measures it proposes. Might it not be a little difficult for bureaucracy, all these familiar hassles are detailed In "Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Most of those failures are small persons making inquiries (with Longhairs and Misguided Friends Blues" and in the tiUe song. Includ1 ones. And we would not be inclined consent of the student) into records Despite a few trivial songs like "Holiday" be over to nit-pick were we not aware that for the purpose of insurance, job and "Holloway Jai" a central question rlDls lithogra~ By TOM PHILLIPS hurrying by to beat each other to the seasonal much more able to understand deep things. through the whole albmn. Why security? Why artistsSI others will be. Thoughtless wording applications, and the like. The Staff Writer punch, rushing arolDld with a sad satanic Ah, for my lack of insight in thinking too technology? Why life? Why anything? Davies now may mean extra months of consent of the student carries no gleam in the eye. A mood of lDleasiness much in too shallow and narrow a way. baits his listeners constantly, making them consideration by the bodies the Bill legal compulsion with it. Back home in Florence, I got a headache, pervaded the streets and walks, and with it I A high school friend came by- she was think. must come before. There is more an upset stomach, several arguments, and a saw the former joys of Ouistmas floating known to me only as an old chmn who had The Kinks contend that man's worst A larger question needs to be lot of pain. 'lbe literal "Second tiD'key?l". away. I began to feel angry, then wistful, at gone down for every jock at USC. After the enemies are the structiD'es he's built to ThJ than a little evidence to show what asked to. Under section (II-B): "11. paranoia struck with full force, as did the the thought that something strange had usual pleasantries (she looked somewhat less arotect himself from foes real and Imaginary. happens to actions which are The authority to allocate University "Your spending too much money!" syndrome happened, something lurking and mysterious sensuous but much more wholesome, though As in "Apeman" from the "Lola etc." albmn, Pul delayed undue lengths of time. funds derived from the un and the "So you wanna look like a girl, huh?" and disastrous and apart from anything that the taint was still within me) she Invited me to "Uncle Son" catalogues all the ills which can And, as it stands, the bill will have dialogue. (Fortunately for my idiot self, older I'd yet experienced. I felt alienated and alone a local church for some Saturday nlght be traced directly to the politlcal-soclal dergraduate student activity fees for brothers relieved me of much of the burdens and forgotten in South Carolina. fellowship; it was then that I noticed the tiny structures which man bas set up to provide In~ to be delayed while large and small use by organizations shall be In the latter department.) But you love all of I turned to Robert and explained my silver cross around her neck. I could not the greatest good for the greatest number. problems that might have been delegated to the WFU College it, or most all of it, and you're sorry to see it predicament, and I think he felt some of what respond, couldn't speak another word, either Generals, Unionists, Socialists, Preachers, avoided at the first are ironed out, Review Board subject to the Student end. I was feeling. W,e watched so~e yolDlg long yesorJio.Icouldn'tevenmakemyusual (and all the bureaucrats In their grey suits with Anarti perhaps ironing the life out of the In amongst my musical experiences, bairs, .. bilstllng m groups .of ten or fifteen,,·~'4.jpcre~:r.self-elckening) comment about their "pin-striped minds" are to be director Faculty Appeals Board and the ranging from nauseous to euphoric, Robert ,.~aklng! ,In curio~. :whJSpers · and · the11Af!t;be n5:m0vement and all its sycoJilantlc eliminated in the new society, Uncle: Son, the Pr.ogr-am Bill itself. Board of Trustees." Did anyone Kirby,my bass player and·lwere uptown at ·giggling at their stratght counterparts •. 1bey~nowtft.<:twas thrown Into a void of com- · · old working man, is assured by the'·yo~ the Joun Under section (II-B): "Mem think, anywhere along the way, of Penneys,looking Into P.A. systems, rah rah, too seemed to have thl'!t ~ of shallowness, IX'ehension and understanding. I !dmply revolutionary. India. and I became even more wistful. Young kids, walked away. bership in all University related the time and skill in economic when I happened to sit down and look at the One song stands above the rest In both The art people. YolDlg, old, fat, short, everything in I said, no more than twelve or thirteen, yet Robert and I then went to practice, but my musical terms and in message. "Oklahoma man as organizations, within the limits of matters needed to allocate funds between- and they all looked very sad, very flagrantly e:drlbiting the colors of the counter thoughts were elsewhere.! became stupified, USA" deals with a yolDlg working-class Uteratu their facilities, shall be open to any equitably? Will the Review Board cryptic, very much withdrawn. People cultiD'e, whatever the hell that may mean. self'Pitylng, nmnb. 1 wondered silently if woman who lives In a fantasy world con members member of the University com also keep books? All of these are Was I being assinlne, I asked, to assmne that college bad not done me a great.injustice, in structed from scraps of old Hollywood rucks. caste. TJ munity who is willing to subscribe to implied in the "authority to allocate th_eywerelessseriousorlessdeeplyinvolved blinding me, physically and emotionally, to S!e has no real reason for existence; she condition: Wlth respect to what the long hair and anny life without Tribble Hall.