28 SDS: The Only Rebellion in Town
An old grad returns to the young Left / Jack Newfield
30 She Works to Live ... Forever
Sharon Kent is a model painter / Photography by Michael Bramman
32 The Shrink Flips
One hell of a sick psych in the new novel by the author of "V" / Thomas
Pynchon
34 Cinematheque: Camping at the Flicks
Eat, drink and watch Bogart / Douglas M. Davis
38 Cassandra: Polemicist without Peer
Such a mouth he has / Lawrence Linderman
42 A Triangle Has Its Points
A great flickering vision of High Hanky / Richard Grenier
44 Miss World on a Weekend in Wales
Cavalier cavorts with the Queen / Photography by Ed Alexander
51 Rock!
A Cavalier superfab special
52 The Big Beat of Life
Here's the music that makes it worth it / Jules Siegel
54 Hang on, Groupie
The birds who follow it / Julia North
56 The Perfect Groupie
An interview with everybody's perfect bird
58 Speak-Out: Folk-Rock-Protest Music
moderator: Paul Krassner
panel: Murray the K, Tom Paxton, Robert Shelton, Irwin Silber
62 The Nashville Sound
Cousin Minnie Pearl is everybody's girl
64 What the Hell Kinda Name Is "The Lovin' Spoonful?"
Who knows?
66 Beauty and the Beat
This is the new woman / Photography by Frank Bez, Dan Kramer and Kathy Wersen
70 The Carnaby Street Sound
England is about to do to our fashions what she did to our music Don Robbie
73 The London Revolution Is On Its Way
More on Carnaby Street DEPARTMENTS
2 Readers' Speak-Out
Epistolary intercourse
6 Editorial
10 Records
Of the guitar, folk-rock and other things / Robert Shelton
12 Movies
Rita Tushingham / Manny Farber
16 White Rock
More on Rock 'n' Soul Bob Rolontz
21 Paul Krassner's Column
To keep cool, stay out of the Draft
22 Eat My Words
Best places to dine / Sheldon Landwehr
26 Hear Here
Transistor stereo-receiver
Bob Angus
EDITORIAL NOTE
This month's most interesting criticism comes in a letter from Michael E. Home
of Matawan, New Jersey, who takes us to task for publishing LeRoi Jones's "This
Pleasant and Affable Young Man Has a Message for You ...White Eyes!" in the
January issue. Mr. Home says: "Publications like yours, which are making
an effort to provide a forum for all, are perhaps doing a greater disservice to
the cause of liberalism than you may realize by providing widespread notoriety
to the lunatic mouthings of a man like Jones."
Mr. Horne, we are not trying to serve any cause. We are interested in the vitality
and intellectual growth that results when strong opinions, freely expressed, openly
clash with each other. For example, in this issue you will find a letter from
an American soldier in Vietnam condemning the anti-draft protests in this country
and a column by Paul Krassner sympathetic to the protesters. Unlike Paul, I think
American men should serve until, hopefully, negotiations take us out of this mess.
I also think freedom to protest is one thing our opposition to Communism is all
about.
This same principle of freedom of opinion is what we try to reflect in the pages
of CAVALIER. This is why we print divergent opinions on the war in Vietnam and
why we printed LeRoi Jones, although I happen to disagree strongly with him, as
Mr. Horne does.
There are two ways to deal with an idea you disagree with: Try to suppress it
or allow it to compete openly with other ideas. Free competition works and suppression
does not; no matter how popular and powerful an invalid idea is, it can't stand
up. With all the power of church and state behind it, the theory that the sun
revolves around the earth was shot down by two lone men, Copernicus and Galileo.
CAVALIER won't print anything that is dull or stupid. But we do keep our pages
open to vital, vibrant, clashing opinions on the hottest topics of the day...because
in the country of the mind this is where the action is.
