GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1777
“It is not bad. Let them play.
Let the guns bark and the bombing-plane
Speak his prodigious blasphemies.
It is not bad, it is high time,
Stark violence is still the sire of all the world’s values.”
(the beginning of the poem “The Bloody Sire” by Robinson Jeffers, 1887-1962)
HALCYON DAYS
The top five songs on the 32nd Silver Dollar Survey on WLS radio, Chicago, May 20, 1961: 1. Runaw…