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Wednesday, December 5, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Briton Alistair Cook Offers His View of America
By STEVEN W. LEWIS
Kansas Reviewer
Alistair Cooke has traveled America for almost 40 years reporting to his British homeland anything and everything from Presidents to burlesque which, Cooke says bemusingly, only a foreign correspondent can do.
Cookie's love affair with America has produced an Emmy-winning television series and, most recently, an expanded book version published by Alfred A. Knopf and Cookie's America," which time magazine called the nation's best-selling nonfiction
Perhaps Cooke's foreign background explains his keen and witty perception of American history. He calls his style "a sense of content," which means he has collected his histories from landscapes instead of books.
He doesn't burden his readers with endless statistics, but interests them with fascinating stories of such Kansas towns as Catherine, where Russians first planted Turkey red wheat; Victoria, where a wealthy English immigrant dislilusioned because there weren't any real McCoy, Ablene, where Joseph McCoy lived up to his promises and became the real "real McCov."
Cooke says early escapades in the New world were as prestigious as today's space flight.
One early escapade Cookie relates was by a Spanish friar who found the much sought-after seven cities of gold. He went about his discovery and caused a sensation.
Immediately, Coromandel was dispatched with troops to conquer the golden cities. In 1624, he captured the city of
If forced Indians from their ancestral lands, Jackson called the ancestral preposterous the pullul.
The Army removed the Indians and the "trail of tears" became the legacy. Cooke calls Jackson's decision one of the most shameful and arbitrary acts of an American warrior.
before concluding he had been victimized by the friar's unusually active imagination. Cook repeatedly illustrates that America has never been quite what its settlers had imagined it would be, a gold Garden of Eden.
Cooke says the Founding Fathers produced only one truly unique idea—judicial review. Five justices of the Supreme Court can overturn any act of Congress or any other law that is to be upheld by the Court has become the defender of the banker and the banker.
President Andrew Jackson thought differently about the role of the Supreme Court. When the Supreme Court ruled a congressional act unconstitutional because
Cook concludes that instead of making a speech, presidents should be required to recite the Bill of Rights at their inaugurations.
Cooke says slavery was the most continually shameful contradiction of the American heritage. He says it is interesting that when President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, he did so only in the south, where he has questionable authority to do so, and
not in the North, where he clearly had the authority.
Cooke's unsatisfaction of Lincoln grows more apparent when he calls the Gettysburg address a masterpiece of rhetoric. He argues that Lincoln was hypractical because he applauded government by the people while he spanked the South for attempting to form a more representative government. Cooke says Lincoln was saying, in effect, "I am not an officer."
Finally, Cook explores what America is today and he doesn't paint a very happy picture. He implies very strongly that she has followed its summit and can go nowhere but down.
On one hand, Cooke says his fear for the
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The second of Steven Kleman's scaled
the NACED KEEN. From the book of the same name
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GOSFELLE. The second Rock musical produced with a religious theme. From the Broadway musical by the cast of "The Phantom of the Opera."
**SINGIN' IN THE RAIN—One of the very best musicals**
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HALF EATES HEAP-Original script by Dan Dulling.
AND THE RATE OF VIOLENCE at 8 p.m. is 9. By December 5, 2013, the rate of violence against children will be 6.5%.
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future is that the technology of the unthinkable war will enchant its practitioners to a point that men will be powerless to subdue it.
On the other hand, Cooke says Americans are swimming in an ocean of social decay. He says there is a contradiction between the American dream and the new American reality.
He says President Franklin Roosevelt didn't have in mind a cure-tate Babyja in a
desert with topple clubs and roulette wheels when he called for a more abundant life for the depression-racked Americans. Coots warns that one lesson of history is the fact that we haven't disciplined themselves have discipline forced upon them from outside.
This is a sobering conclusion to an enjoyable book. Forgive my enthusiasm, but "Alistair Cooke's America" will be a classic.
Grateful Dead More Consistent In 'Wake of the Flood' Album
By BILL WEBER
Kanan Reviewer
"Wake of the Flood" subtly signifies the wake of a new era in the evolution of the Grateful Dead. As evidenced on the album, "The Words I've Learned" has aged and matured like a fine wine.
'Continued development, however, doesn't imply the same amount of improvement. "Wake of the Flood" is more consistent with the usual albums, but can't be considered the best.
The new consistency comes as a natural result in the flow of events. The Godcheux family, with Keith on keyboards and Donna Jean, vocalist, has been totally integrated into the studio's music ability to use a studio has improved to make the album the most technically stable vet.
After years of experimentation, the Dead has favored certain styles, tones and moods. The maturing process has come with collective adaptation of these qualities.
"Weather Report Suite" also contains some old and newly developed Grateful Dead sounds. The first part is highlighted with Garcia's pedal steel guitar accompanying a Bob Weir ballad. The second
hass moments of Weir's love for the Mexican
feeling, reminiscent of "El Paso" and
"Mexicanall Blue."
For example, consider the depressed existentialist mood expressed in "Morning Dew" on the Dead's first album, Jerry Garcia recaptures the same feeling in "Stella Blue," only with better results because of the band's new developments.
Garcia also has a love for the cosmos. *Dunk Star* and "*China Cat Sunflower*" are three of Garcia's most famous points of a written riff is fixed, while the rest of the band freely rotates in musical harmony: "Eyes of the World" and "Here Comes the Moon" sit on the album for musical space travel.
Bob Dylan Plans Nationwide Tour
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Concert halls were reserved on annoyance. Arrangements were worked out clandestinely. But one of the best-secrets in rock music is out: Bob Dylan is making his first nationwide tour in eight years.
The performances nearest the Lawrence area are Feb. 4 at the Missouri arena in St. Louis, where two shows will be presented, and Feb. 6 at the Coliseum in Denver.
In the casual style that has become his trademark, Dylan's comeback was announced in newspaper advertisements in 21 cities that said simply "Dylan The Band" and gave details about buying concert tickets.
What holds the album back from being a true masterpiece is some sluggish material and an overall quiescent style that lacks spontaneity. Removing "Row Jimmy Row" from the album went out for fine use in the catalog as "Eyes of the World!" and "Here Comes Sunshine."
The Dead is one of the oldest, strongest and most respected of all American rock bands because of its free spirit and masterful musicianship. To fully portray the Dead's emotional and technical involvement without continually releasing live albums, the band will have to learn how capture the free spirit of spontaneity in the studio. When it accomplishes that, it will receive the deserved recognition of being the best.
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