Every Youth Movement Presents Itself As A

As I Write, Johnny Rotten's First Moments In "anarchy In The U.k." - A Rolling Earthquake Of A Laugh, A Buried Shout, Then Hoary Words Somehow Stripped Of All Claptrap And Set Down In The City Streets - I Am An Antichrist - Remain As Powerful As Anything I Know. Listening To The Record Today - Listening To The Way Johnny Rotten Tears At His Lines, And Then Hurls The Pieces At The World; Recalling The All-consuming Smile He Produced As He Sang - My Back Stiffens; I Pull Away Even As My Scalp Begins To Sweat.

The Sixties Are Most Generously Described As A Time When People Took Part - When They Stepped Out Of Themselves And Acted In Public, As People Who Didn't Know What Would Happen Next, But Who Were Sure That Acts Of True Risk And Fear Would Produce Something Different From What They Had Been Raised To Take For Granted.

Words That In Their Everyday Surrealism Have No Parallel In Contemporary Writing... Music That Mines The Deep Veins Of Fatalism In The Appalachian Voice

It May Be That The Most Interesting American Struggle Is The Struggle To Set Oneself Free From The Limits One Is Born To, And Then To Learn Something Of The Value Of Those Limits

You're Going To React To A Painting In A Way That The Painting Demands You React.