University of Wollongong Research Online The Living Daylights Historical & Cultural Collections 3-26-1974 The Living Daylights 2(12) 26 March 1974 Richard Neville Editor Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights Recommended Citation Neville, Richard, (1974), The Living Daylights 2(12) 26 March 1974, Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.2 no.12, March 26 - April 1, 28p. https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/22 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] The Living Daylights 2(12) 26 March 1974 Publisher Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.2 no.12, March 26 - April 1, 28p This serial is available at Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/22 Don Dunstan gags press • Brawling at Pentridge • Prying on teachers • Student news special a plagiarised potpourri of of news, Daylight Robbery views and trivia with MIKE MORRIS having to deal with the demoralising N december 12, 1969, a series of idealism . with one notable excep­ 22 today tion: Richard Milhous Nixon is a prospect o f a review o f their work bomb explosions rocked the Ital­ O by the Sydney morning herald's ian bank o f agriculture in Milan, killing quaker. Now aint that a spanner in the Thelma Forshaw. Last Saturday For- AST WEEK was our 21st issue, 16 people and wounding 88. Police G ood Works. shaw found herself unable to read which we characteristically forgot to and the judiciary moved, as they say, L HH, the last o f the high divers, more than 100 of the 760 words of announce, and this week we try out a new quickly and in a whirlwind drive ar­ the heavy rollers, the crazy Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity's rainbow. logo, designed by Ian McCausland, which rested Pietro Valpreda, a self-proclaim­ A romantics. Alack. An American streak­ Novelist Pynchon, whose identity is accepts that we are now known by one ed anarchist, and several o f his col­ er dashed about the sun deck o f the concealed from all save his publisher, leagues. word alone. retired hulk of Queen Mary, dived 80 In the same breathtaking week, Living Charges werent laid, instead Val­ first came to attention with the super- feet into the waters of San Francisco. surreal and very readable V. This book delights has been compressed to Bright- preda lay in the cells for three years all He was fished out later . .. dead. is more complex and demanding but at lights, which will end confusion on the the time proclaiming his innocence telephone and give extra emphasis to its and saying the bombings were part of the same time works well for those in OW this is something Robin whom it generates some sort o f echo. lift-out autonomy. The final absurdity in a plan by fascists to stir up a rightwing H ood and his Merry Men would It may not be the book for Austral­ this hysteria o f name calling, is . Swot- backlash. -Yeah, yeah, said the turn­ N dig: statistics on the Single Man. From light s . a weekly supplement of happen­ keys. ians; they may have no cultural affin­ America, the birthplace of Playboy. ings in the mind factories. Last week’s Last week the case finally came to ity with what Pynchon is talking Single men are seven percent o f the Daylights sold out in 24 hours in many court in the cooler political climate of about. There’s certainly nothing to be areas — especially at universities — so those out of town Catanzaro. After only one population, ashamed o f in saying one can’t handle Twentyseven percent of the unem­ who find us hard-to-get, bully your news­ and a half hours the case was adjourn­ the book. But Ms Forshaw does her ployed, best to put the book down from a agent to boost stocks. ed amid confusion. It seems that inde­ Sixtyfive percent of prison inmates, A wonderful hodge podge of an issue pendent judicial investigators have position of admitted ignorance trying to Eightyseven percent of Vietnam this week: beginning with Brendan Hen- been looking into the incident and back her credentials by name-dropping war casualties, the few books one supposes she has nessy’s pics from Sunday’s prison demon­ have compiled a 425 page report Ninety percent of the homeless. stration (opposite) and ending in Total which concludes that the bombings read. CHEW ON THAT REVS! orgasm and a flurry o f readers grumbles. were the work of, yes, THREE NEO We say farewell to Dick Beckett, who’s FASCISTS. What would Sacco and MAZING news for jejuned Y weariness amazes me . .. been beating up the week’s news since issue Vanzetti say? juicers. We learn Valium and From the pinnacle of hip A one, and welcome our own Mick Morris as M booze is a very hazardous cocktail. publishing Rolling stone have devoted the mad monitor o f passing pies in the TREAKING, a very boring pro­ Last week a coroner confirmed the huge lengths of copy to what can only skies: this page. Smotion campaign by the makers fact after someone died and went on be called “ the Bob Dylan revival trip” . Adelaide’s boring Festival o f Arts is o f sandshoes, has been here before to say people shouldnt mix alcohol Slade and Bowie fans here may find being thrashed to death by practically . Job and Godiva excepted. In 17th and downers as the mixture could sympathy for Sabine Falkenthal who every newspaper in the land, so why century England it was called “ quak­ prove fatal. I spoke to several people wrote this to Stone: shouldnt we get in for our chop too? We ing" and was practised by young mem­ who hold prescriptions for Valium and “ Please dont worry that singlemind­ sent Colin Talbot who gives it a perspective bers o f the Society o f Friends who used all expressed amazement, saying their ed devotees of Dylan-Beatles-Stones not to be found in the pages o f beaux-arts to parade naked as a “ sign” - a biblical­ doctor never warned them. hold sway, because I believe such (p.7). ly motivated protest against the round­ tastes are largely restricted to the From an innocent abroad we obtained head puritannical regime of Oliver IDED by the wet season, the over-20 set. May I speak for most 19 an essay o f Laos where deep in the hills he Cromwell, the man who said a gather­ city councillors o f Darwin have year olds in asserting that the era o f A discovered not so much a war but an ing of two or more could be declared a managed to “ clean up” Lameroo the Big Three’s unqualified greatness American way of life (p.9). “ riotous assembly” . beach, one time far northern hippie had passed by the time their music If you mention the word “progress” to History records that when James haven. Most have headed for Bali or became important to me. I would go the NSW department o f education they’ll Nayler — a kinda quaker St Peter — returned to the south where the cli­ so far as to say that, for me, Dylan was unfurl their plans to engulf Newtown with entered Bristol. Friends cast their mate is more hospitable. not a contemporary but a historical office blocks and car parks. These days clothes before him, shouting “hosan- However, a sturdy but small band affair, not as distant as Chuck Berry they seem more willing to admit the na” . The ruling order later paid James hung around, but moved to nearby but not as immediate as the Airplane. schemes o f town planners and architects their anger and punished the shit out grounds owned by the RAAF. The air Although ardent appreciation of Dy­ than they are to listen to the ideas and of him. But, that’s not the point: the force didnt seem to mind and all was lan, et al., is in order, I am relieved not philosophies o f their employees — the quakers grew in numbers during these cosy . that is until Darwin’s city to have been 17 and stricken by The teachers (p.4). days o f undress, attracting hordes o f fathers twigged, bought the land from times they are a-changin’. Margaret MacIntyre this week listens to gentle and inspired folk. the RAAF and expelled the squatters! Joni Mitchell, whom she considers one of But, come the 18th century and the Australian novelists have enough But the dry is fast approaching and the most important forces in rock today. descendants of the gentle were (may I problems unfettering themselves from with it Darwin can expect the arrival Stephen Coleman reviews Jackson quote from a letter sent to the London the sterilising effect o f their education of 10,000(!) denimed and grubby Browne’s brilliant album Everyman, one o f Times? “a bourgeois coterie of bank­ system and coping with a culture that pilgrims. the best things that’s happened to vinyl in ers, brewers and cocoa growers” . The uses language like a cattle prod to keep a long time. Rob King delivers an eulogy 20th century sees a return to peaceful people away from each other, without UT in Sunshine, in Melbourne’s for Gram Parsons. urban wasteland, the parents are Feedback: Susan Peacock, in response O raising protests about “amusement to our garbology story two weeks back, is parlors”.