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R0. Box 240 Ojai. Calif. Jnazzletter A 93023 February 1989» Vol. 8 N0. 2

' J . We were to follow Woody at Eastwood Gardens, /- an outdoor venue near Detroit. We arrived in town Sunday Letters - afternoon; That evening was to be the closing night for Woody. We all went, our whole band, to" hear this Herd. To I must congratulate you on your fine book, Oscar.Peterson: The our chagrin it was pouring rainat the Gardens and there was /‘ Will to Swing. A splendid work. You give a most thorough absolutely no audience. No one could dance on that outdoors study of Oscar, his beginning and family, and items floor, obviously, and the Herman band didn’t even set up. It about his talent and ideas. r ‘ ‘ was a washout. » ' You, research deserves commendation. A splendid, colorful We in the Miller band were very disappointed. There was story in all, about this tremendous musical genius who has an enclosed area with a bar that was sheltered from the rain. made such a great contribution to American (and Canadian) Woody had the band set up and proceeded to play an entire and, with his original works, to "serious" music as well. concert just for us! I’ll never forget it. ‘Our admiration was , looked up to him all these years, and _I was pleased obvious, and they played their collective asses off. w enhe recorded a couple of my songs, Angel Eyes and The I finished the Peterson biography in one fell swoop and Night We Called It a Day, and very proud of the arrangements. loved it. I’ve always thought him to be without peer. I’ve This book should be must reading for any worthwhile never met him, and I‘felt I knew him well after reading the musician, composer, or arranger, or for that matter anyone book, and also felt certain I’d like the man very much. interested in the best kind of artist of our time. Regards. , , Beverly Hills, California _ Matt Dennis, Riverside, California I have finished Meet Me at Jim and Andy's and found myself I have just enthralledly read your biography of Oscar more deeply touched than by anything I’ve read in years -- and Peterson. It is excellent and should be as widely read as also, sitting in my living room, laughing alone, which isn’t possible. I’d like to thank you for the more than several regular for me. . I never knew Bill*Evans, but now understand mentions of my own little study of 1984, including your him much better through ‘the writing of-a friend. Thanks. criticisms! I think- ’s remarks on pages 251-2 are In the Oscar Peterson biography, you several times men- amongst the very best and most authoritative critical judgments tioned his memory. Probably in the 19605, I brought Midge ever made about Oscar-’s work. For twenty-five years I too from Wenatchee to hear ‘Oscar at Charlie Puzzo’s Penthouse have been infuriated and frustrated by those who, in Herbie’s Club. Oscar came over to the table to meet‘Midge' and asked words, "are not up to hearing it", and I’ve learnt too not if there was anything he could play for her. She said his to "discuss it with anybody, because there’s nothing to discuss." recording of The Maids of Cadiz was one of her favorites. That got to the heart of things as trenchantly as anything I’ve After an introduction and dedication to Midge, he gave us a heard. e ", e - treatment of the tune to be treasured. About two years. later,-‘the trio was back at the Penthouse. Richard Palmer, Bedford England Midge and I decided to once more drive the 150 miles over the mountains to hear them. Starting time was nine. About These comments are particularly precious to me, because Matt 9:20 they came running in after a late flight and shot upstairs is such a. fine pianist and a superb composer whom I have to the dressing room. Midge and Iyhad been placed in the admired all my life; and I consider Richard’Palmer the leading last remaining seats at the rear of the club and behind a post. authority on the recordings of Oscar Peterson. His "little study" We couldn’t see‘ much, but were near the speakers and the is an eighty-page monograph written for the Masters series sound was good. Around 9:30 they went on the stand. Oscar in Britain, to which he also has contributed a study of Stan said, "How nice to be back in Seattle. I’d like to play a lovely Getz. I relied heavily one his book for dates and personnel, and tune for a lovely lady. This is for Midge." And he played The on a three-part essay on Oscar that he wrote for Jazz Joumal Maids of Cadiz. . International. I quoted him as often as I did because of the How he spotted us in the corner on his dash through was acuity of his judgments; He always struck me as being right on almost beyond comprehension. But then to couple that with the mark. My "criticisms" consisted mostly of pulling his leg a a memory of both her name and the tune after,’ I’m sure, little for enthusiasm. We have never met. hundreds of names and requests -- it has remained an impor- tant moment in our listening over the years. - \ I~just the chapter on in-Meet Me at Jim tmdlpAndy’.s and Was deeply moved. I adored each of the Don Lanphere, Kirkland, Washington g t I Herdsi -keep a Cassette of the first one in _my glove compartment as an antidote for the dreck that contaminates Okay, the record business" isn’t a whore. But it sure E a the airwaves these days. - fuck without a kiss. I recall a marvelous evening back in 1946, when I was singing I was with RCA when Elvis died, and there certainly was a with in the post-war band led by celebration atmosphere in accounting that day, which didn’t - - x Copyright 1989 by Gene Lees l~ . . e I H "I I ll Hllnl-"Ii.-__ bother me half as much as the company’ deleting my album before yesterday was "irrelevant." God help them, and yes, Images, a collaboration with Michel Legrand, from the God help all of us, who suffer because of this ignorance. catalogue after it won a Grammy in 1976. ‘ I am convinced that the record industry’s lack of support has Wallace L. Mason, Cumberland, Rhode Island 0 done more to set back American music (good music in general, not just jazz) than any other accountable factor. Of Joe Smith '\1 course, I am speaking only of the big guys. God bless the President and CEO e small, independent labels who care about the music and are ' l satisfied with modest profits. The Quintet and I are happy 1750 N. Vine Street with Carl Jefferson at . He and they love the Hollywood, California music and a fair shake to the artist. We ask no more. Keep kickin’ ass, Gene. As Bu says, "Jazz is the truth and If you offered any lessons in English grammar, rhetoric, or eventually it will grind the bullshit into powder.“ Love, composition, "I wouldn’t be looking to enroll in your class" as you quaintly put it. _ , Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania Capitol would profit if you had a secretary or friend w o could edit your letters. The good thing is that you are out there on our behalf. The bad news is that King George III has taken offense at Carroll J. Bellis MD, PhD , the Tom Paine whose Common Sense publication really does Clinical Professor of Surgery contain the power to frighten his highness and the vast evil University of California, Irvine ' empire he commands. As far as responsibility is concerned, the major conglomerates To Joe Smith: who poison the airwaves and strangle the American culture for the purpose of lining their pockets cannot evade matters by Another fallen idol. "Say it isn’t so, Joe." the caring and thinking minority. Do you think Mr. Smith and his cronies really feel the Jules Studio City, California Iazzletter and the intelligent music community it speaks for is insignificant? Hardly; They‘re scared stiff. Dear Mr. Smith: j Your letter certainly points up a lack of knowledge -of your Bernard Brightman own business areas and re-emphasizes the statements made in l President (the) article. To me it seems the height of stupidity to mount Stash Records a vitriolic attack on someone without at least determining the . validity of the statements made. . l By now you have probably discoveredthat Mr. Lees, gfl Just a note to congratulate you on the Jazzletter. You may than being an irresponsible know-nothing, is a res i or may not remember me, but I knew you in Chicago in the author, musician, etc., and his publication, rather than being mid-60s when I worked at Mercury Records before moving to insignificant, is read and valued by many of the more know- crazy NYC, where I’ve been since 1967. After reading my old ledgable jazz buffs. _ friend Bobby Scott’s eloquent reply to The Music Biz Is Not a Your letter reveals much about your personal character and, Whore, I must now surely find a copy. of that particular I’m sorry to say, has produced quite a negative image of newsletter because many of the points raised by Bobby are Capitol Records. Sincerely, . things that used to gall me about the business. I left CBS in 1972 and have never looked back. Things definitely ain’t what Robert T. Pritchard theyusedtobeinthebiz. President, Mid-Coast Jan Society The fact that Joe Smith never heard of you just shows his Brunswick, Maine i lack of knowledge. Keep kickin’ ass! Mari Jo Johnson. An Editorial Arts Management Consultant . 4 New York City’ The mail about Joe Smith has been voluminous -- not to mention the phone calls. Some mail went directly to Capitol Was that letter from Joe Smith for real? That anyone in Records. that position had not heard of you is almost inconceivable. I The most frequently asked questions asked were: - say "almost" because I am well aware of the abysmal ignorance Who is Joe Smith? V ' which exists éverywhere today, mainly in those of the 1960s Is that letter a joke? I generation to whom anything that happened before the day There really is a Joe Smith, and he is chief executive officer *5.-_.¢,.;/B.-.j;1\_'._>-jg. 1,, ~;\...s " '=

v U of Capitol Records, and he really did write that letter, it’s Doobie Brothers; Seals and Crofts, James Taylor, not at It is fascinating for its naive self-admiration’; Sabbath, Deep Purple, the Allman Brothers, Leo Sayer, Van puresand-uni§uestioning;pomposity. " ~ Morrison, Manfred Mann, The Cars, Rabbit, Grover One ofthe reasons I checked out of the National» Academy Washington, Jr., Hank Williams In, (sic) Rushen, of Jazz, iorfned three years ago as a response to the shabby ’MQfley C1-uc, The Eagles, Linda Jackson BIOWIR-3, treated by NARAS -- I resigned from,NARAS Queen . . . the list goes on. e r M Fr. itself. will have nothing to do with it -- was its ?’Now in a rare one night event, the man behind the scenes whiny preoccupation withljazz to the exclusion of other forms will’ step center stage. s Joe‘ Smith will telliyou whats takesto of good music. I didn’t even likethe name or the organiza- break in andget ahead in the music today. You’ll tion. AII good music is in trouble because of theavarice of learn how he made it to the top and how youican too . .i . you the huge companies that now dominate the industry. Instead owe it to yourself not _to miss this Aft?!’ 311» Y°11'T¢ in the usual weeping about what can be done "for going to be competing with the people‘ who do show up. So jazz", the academy should have been concerned with what pick up the: phone and register today." ‘ _ Qded to be done about the condition of the American Pianist, writer, anditeacher John Worsley, who contributes a ture as a whole. Yes, MCA is reissuing on CD all those regular column on jazz to the Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Times, great Impulse albums by Coltrane, Blakey, etial. was as fascinatedby the Joe Smith letter as everyone else. Yes, the Vervesand all the other material Creed Worsley wrote, "Smith’s letter is a classic example of ‘values Taylor produced for MGM is being issued by Polygram. Yes, and attitudes that have not only hurt music and the arts in this RCA is reissuing valuable material from the 1930s and ’40s. country, but our economy, our political structure, and -much of But those albums were already in the vaults and cost nothing the quality of our life." . but the packaging to put; out. The majors are doing very little indeed for the perpetuation of real music. It is as if they were Some years ago, I was talking to the noted movie director Ted issuing reprints of Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Walter Scott Post about the Clint Eastwood film Magrrum Farce, which Ted and taking deep bows for what they are doing for literature. directed. ,He had just returned from alpublicity tour to But the high-‘quality pop music of past years, albums by promote the picture. Ted, who struck me as being a gentle Marilyn Maye and Steve Lawrence, the early Jack Jones man, said that the questions of reporters about the film’s material, is probably lost to us forever. Jazz is in fact getting violence had bothered "Why?" I asked. _ a better shake than . ‘As for classical music, the . "Because it is violent,” he-said. I had not seen the picture majors have virtually withdrawn -from the field, and the little at that point. Ted said it containeda scene in. which -a-pimp innovative recording that is being done in-the field is on makes a prostitute scan _of- Draino; He said he lived independents. Listen to _-one of the classical-music stations: in the fear t_hat~on_e day heiswould up a newspaper and you’ll "notice how much of the new CD production is dedicated read that somewhere, some nut had done-= exactly that. . . to ‘,lf_8l5Sll€S' ofstuff recorded twenty or thirty years ago. s "But Ted,“ I said, t"it’s already happened. It ihappencd last ‘$1-;‘re‘ason\is simple: the major record labels are no longer week." And I told him about the robbery (I forget now in l i .nrusici.»business. They are in the moneyibusiness. And what city) of a store during which the robbers made employees ' _you‘want dance cheek-to-cheek with the philosophy of Joe drink Draino and then watched them die. Smithiand by extension the heads of all the majors, you need ‘Ted got tears in his eyes; onlyread the advertising for a seminar he delivered at the Later I asked -Ted for his permission to tell this story Annex in New York recently. It bore the headline: publicly, it an appropriate occasion. to do so arose. He gave "How to ;Ma_ke it in. the Music business with Joe Smith, it, and is the occasion. He saidshe was very concerned for President-ICEO,_ Capitol-‘EMI Music Inc." r . the influenceeof movies , and other forms of enter- The adread: l ‘ l l tainment on public behavior. 1 "Spend as great evening with the president of the industries (The scene has beencut from the print that turns up on (sic). hottest recording label, as he tells you: What it takes to television.) l l break into and succeed in the record business. I s After’ Stanley K_ubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange was "Throughout his career, Joe Smith has been known as one released, police in various cities recorded incidents of gangs of of the most innovative and successful executives of the rock young thugs breaking into private homes and mercilessly music industry. In his 28 year career he’s worked in every side beating their residents for the pleasure of it, exactly as in the of the business from disc jockey, to marketing and ‘sales, to distribution and promotion, working way up through the sWhen Marlene Dietrich appeared in a film wearing a pair of ranks to become the chief executive officer of no less than "slacks", women all over America began wearing them, which three rnaior recording labels. change. in fashion led eventually to blue jeans. One appear-. ”11icif,n!fl.fl#l!¢!!iud.the»,scenes ' ance by Dietrich in ai changed- women’s styles forever. "Over Years he .has_ signed many major pacts .and=has When Clark Gable-took off in a movieto __reveal_. not ‘overseen .1}l§.Ilt€ting' strategies and promotions, for an undershirttbut a bare chest, the industry__was and :35: Rod Stewart, The Grateful “Dead, The seriously. damaged. When the Beatles grew their hair long, 1

< all over the world did the same. similar events. They haven't learned a were the early days of radio broadcasting, jingles have been conditioned to terrible -taste in their youth, they have terrible used.-tof sell products. The figures are there. The advertising taste now, and they will have terrible taste in their old can prove it to you: messages set to music alter public When they lie in sunken-checked gray-skinned rheumy-eyed behavior. For the entertainment industry to claim that it has dotage on life-support systems in their days, they no social influence -- and thus no social responsibility -- is will be wearing headphones, mainlining the offal of their youth, ludicrous. The hypocrisy is monstrous. Its corporate heads getting off on Mick Jagger and Gracie Slick. We their elders as deny that the "media" can shape public behavior even as their will already have shufiled off mortal coil on wings of time salesmen hustle customers precisely on the grounds that Sibelius and Delius and . I didn’t particularly it does- The military exposes young recruits to gruesome dig sharing a century with admirers of Madonna and Adolph films to the specific purpose of desensitizing them, Hitler. . rendering them indifferent to horrors and cruelties, while the The idea that bad taste leads to good taste is of course no movie ‘industry argues that movies such as Friday the Thirteenth longer heard in the record industry, because people like Joe audits ilk and imitationshave no such effect. The heads of Smith and his minions and sycophants themselves Mve$ t_he*ent.crtainment industry know perfectly well the effect of taste. They don’t know, they simply don’t know, that ‘ as surely as a Colombian cocaine baron ordering they like is crap. Give them credit for that. Joe Smith is the execution of a judge attempting to maintain some vestige quite sincere in producing, promoting, and it. df vmotalityrknows the effect of They don’t care. If Can you imagine trying to discuss, say, Poulenc or B.udP'owell there’s. profit in it, t:hey’ll* sell it. To them, life. is about or the late Beethoven sonatas with this man? To him, "making it." Any way you can. - according to his own advertising, the record business is not And one of the things the rock record industry has done for about making music, it is about making "it". r humanity is the current-and by now irreversible drug pandemic. Increasingly it is obvious, as Phil Woods intimates, that real Rock propagandized drug use. Rock led to it. Tell that to music depends on the independents. we must reorganize the rock fans in their thirties and they go bananas. But it’s the music business. I don’t know how. But, it’s time to hold .a truth; They try to say the Viet Nam war caused the pandemic. conference of artists and the heads of the independent record Why didn’t the Korean war only a few years earlier cause it? companies to see what can be done to preserve and perpetrate Because there were no albums on the Capitol label by the real music. We must make common cause. And a National Beatks showing marijuana on the cover, there were no albums Academy of Jazz is not the answer. We need a.National on RCA by the. Jefferson celebrating "drug use. The Academy of Music, in which you must--be elected to"member- songs came into the marketplace in the. ship, to prevent. its following the pattern of I said in midg19;60s, atfirst alarming music directors and jockeysat a meeting at the time that if the organization insisted on i radiostations. A few briefcases of coke, a‘ few hookers at disc the word "jam". in its name, it would die. And it did both. _ jockey conventions, silenced the objections. We’re notin the same business Joe Smith is in. He’s not m Asll -write this,-there is a case before the counts in which the music business. He’s in the plastic, business, and several adolescent boys who had embraced Satanismr on the sotmd of belching dugongs would sell,.he’d sell it. It-Ie. d inspiration, of heavy metal records clubbed to death one of want to come to my ethics class? Good. We don’-t want‘ ' their friends because it was "fun.f', More recently, near in our organization. y . Brownsville, Texas, law enforcement people busted a drug- And I think it’s high time we went about settingit up. sect that hasbeen practicing human sacrifice in apparent imitation of the 1986 John Schlesigner movie The The Readers. . I . r Believers, starred Martin Sheen. Authorities dug up thirteen bodies, all mutilated. Brains, hearts, and other organs had been removed and boiled in blood. It is unknown whether In the past, we have each year published the readership list. John Schlesinger has "enough sensitivity to weep, as Ted Post I discontinued the practice on the grounds that it wasted space, did. ‘(Jr how Martin Sheen, champion of human rights and" only to receive requests to resume it. One reader said it was other good things, has -‘reacted. . "comforting" -- comforting, I suppose, in that it makes one r as alljust entertainment, isn’t it? , aware that there are a few otherpeoplewith tastes and . When the first drugrecords were being made, the official interests. It hasalso, incidentally, led to the restoration of line of the record companies’ public relations departments was several old and lapsed friendships. A that popular music merely reflected society, it did not affect It is, as before, an extraordinarily distinguished Here it it. The sheer of that boggles the imagination. When 1s: , the rock-and-rollgarbagebegan dominating the market-G place, the line was that the industry was turning millions of Michael Abene, Ulf Abjornsson, Jerry Abraham, AbeAbukoff, kids on:to music and they would go on to appreciate better Mariano F. Accardi, Robert G. Ackerman, Harlan Adamcik, music as they matured. The reality? Huge crowds of balding Johnny Adams / KRML, Larry Adamson, Doug Adrianson, ynppies and theirwives turn up at rock-group reunions and Giacomo Agostini, Tony Agostinelli, John Aiken, Steve Alcala,

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Douglas.Talbert, Richard W. Talleur, Wiley Tarr, Bruce Tater, proof ‘of it. J ~ , Del Taylor, Michael Taylor, Terry Teachout / . Stimted by television, our national attention span. New York Daily News, High Fidelity etc., H.H. Teachout, Karl survives from one day to the next. If Richard to V. Teeter, Dr. Philip Terman, Diane Terry, Pete Terry, Brad 11111 for the presidency in 1992 and get elected, no one should I Terry, Robert Thiele / Flying Dutchman Records, Bernard B. tum a hair. History in our declining school system is replaced Thunan, Edmund Thigpen, Chuck Thomas, George B. Thomas, by Women’s Consciousness, Group Awareness, Creative -'; $1‘ Kurt Bruce A. Thompson, G.B. Thompson, Curt Divorce, Pebble Collecting, and Macrame. University gradu- Thomson, eWill Thornbury, Julia K. Tibbitts, James L. Titche- ates assume the Women’s movement started with Betty ner,Dr. Frank Tirro / Yale University, Ross Tompkins, Loren Friedan, the anti-war movement with Bob. Dylan, and the black T00l3]l8li I WQXR, Jo Ann Torporski, Ebbe Traberg, John E. movement with Martin Luther King. s T-iravalena, Connie Tregenza, C. Treger, Oscar Treadwell / As a frightening consequence of being divorced from its past, WGUC, Ken‘ Tricebock, Joseph Trimble,. Trinity College America remains frozen in perpetual adolescence. Like Peter l-il>1'il1}', Nicki Tripodes, Vince Trombetta, George Tudor, Pan, we have divined the secret of eternal childhood. Tully, T111101! / WFNX, 'P¢Illly Tyler’. amples instantly suggest themselves in our movies, our 111llSlC, Dr Frank Uhlig, Varda M. Ullman, Bob & Lou Underwood, our news media, in what passes for our national literature, and Don "Underwood, Dr. William J. Underwood, ' in our politics. » Dino Betti van der Noot, Marvin A. Van Dilla, Wendy»Van By his own admission, George Lucas made his Star Wars Dilla, Gary Vercelli / KXPR, Marlene VerPlanck, Steve Voce, trilogy for a twelve-year-old audience. Rock, punk, and disco Tom Wakeling, Anne V. Waldburger, Melvin Walden-James, are media-manipulated corruptions of jazz and the best of Bob Waldman, Lee Waldron, George H. Walker, Mal Walker, rhythm ’n’ aimed at armies of rootless children languish— Charles Wall, Kirk Wallace, R.D. Wallace, Alfred Wallbank ing in invincible ignorance of America’s classical music from MD, Bob Waller, Mr& Mrs. _Doug Walter, Clint Ward, Geo- Scott Joplin to Charlie Parker. Cut off from the golden age rge Warren, Joe Warwick, Washington State U, Ron Wasser- of cabaret satire from Mort Sahl to Lenny Bruce, a vast man, Don Waterhouse, Ron Watt, Alan Watts, Andre Watts, audience of culturally deprived thumbsuckers finds hilarity in Camille Watts, Jeff Weber, Philip Wedge /.v.p. CTV Toronto, Dan Ackroyd, and, God help us, Pee Wee Paul Weinstein, Sam Weiss, Maurice Weiss, Sam, Weiss, Cecil Herman. Welch, Ken _Welch, Terry L. Weldon, Paul F. Wells, W.C.A. Children well into their thirties consume Garfield paperbacks, Wemmcns, Jim West / Justin Time Records, Westminster City EJI video cassettes, and tickets to Grateful Dead reunions." .Librar1'es, Gerry Weston, Paul Weston, Charles Whaley, Marla The Boy George Fashion _& Coloring Book, the memoirs-‘of Jane Wheillleyi Gcoffrey~ Wheeler, Kenny Wheeler, Elvis Presley’s widow, and the mystic twaddle of Edgar,Cayce Samuel D. Wheeler, N.F. White, Randy White, Sally White, are reviewed in thebook pages of the San Francisco Chronicle. Margaret Michael B. Whitlow MD, Douglas Wilber, Andy Warhol’s legacy of garage-sale gimcracks is auctioned off l-"TY wilwx, Ken Wiley, Jim Wilke, George Will, Floyd A. at Picasso prices as a media event. Our bestselling Williams Jr, Dora D. Williams, Jack Williams, Jim Williams, game is Trivial Pursuit. That embodiment of infantile r J.R._ Killy Lois C. Williams, Norman sion, Brooke Shields, isia child molester’sfantasy exalted as Williams, Patrick Williams, Ray Williams, Joe Williams, Billy the sex goddess of the 1980s. Williamson, John S. Wilson I New York Times, Phil Wilson / John Wayne could have been elected president with no Berklee of Music, Barry Winograd / WBEZ, Eugene sweat, being precisely what a nation of twelve-year-olds seeks Winograd, Paul W'mter, Huntington Witherill, L.A. Witherill, in a ‘leader -- here come Big John on a white stallion, a gtm Mike Wofiorll, D01! Wolf, Jurgen Wolfer, Ed & Mary Wolff, on his hip, cleaning out the dirty Commie rats. But Big John Ellen J; Wong, Dale Wood, Marshall Wood, Tim Wood, Phil succumbed to Big C, and the power elite of ,the‘eRepublican Woods, Ronald Woods, John Worsley, Ole-Petter Worsoe, Carl Party hired to impersonate the president an actor and idiot-sa- Wright, wsm PBS TV/Radio, g . vant who performed so stunningly that after eight years of an Ylohn J. Yanas, Shelley Yoelin, Michael Yonchenko, Anthony "administration" that rendered stand-up political satire obsolete oung, g in America, Gallup pollsters found that the overwhelming 1 Thomas S. Ziegler, Andrew Zimmermann, George Ziskind, majority of the electorate would have voted a third. time for the ::i€shall J, Zucker, Michael Zwerin / International Herald Great Staggering Booby. * A n nne. - A lot of heavy sugar has been invested in children’s movies, children’s music, and children’s politics, which television has mangled into a form of entertainment. The power elite -has G_ro'ver’s Corner played upon the apathy of the Intelligent Minority. to byGroveriSalese . Q disengage them from the political process and thereby insure the squalid triumph of the Bushes and the Quayles in a nation I-lialf ta before the birth of Christ, the great Roman of children whose History lies buried in yesterday’s head- orator Cicero warned his countrymen: "To*know no History lines. . ‘ ' is to remain a child all one’s life." Contemporary America is -- GS