dtat;;Collegian arts Angela Davis' biography 'could put yak to sleep' JOHN CHILD Collegian Staff Writer ANGELA DAVIS, \ ACTOBIOGII.IIIII Bantam Books. 399 pages. $1.9.1. "Life" magazine told me in eighth grade that Angela Davis was not only" beautiful, black, and "brilliant". but that her shotgun was used by the Soledad Brothers to make a California Judge's face look like a deer's welly torn open 1) a tractor trailer on the turnpike Angela Davis' autobiogra phy could put a yak to sleep She exhibits the literary prowess of an old inner tube She is more sell-important and redundant than the end less memoirs 01 most chubby diplomats. book review At tirst I thought she must e needed the money. She pl,i,tered her pretty face on .11e c,ok er and sold me a bag of dir She said nothing about , A ince) Watergate, the ClA's murder of Allende, or the cheeky Kennedys But after I read the book, I realized that 'he go‘ernmental repression hat has Just recently been incovered for the ‘N lute folks •as "lite-as-usual — for ngela Davis The Soledad Brothers•were 11 wee black inmates on trial in ugust 1970 for the murder of MISSIONHURST ... : Director of Vocations .7.. Priesthood A community of Cain°lic priests 1 MISSIONHURST = Brotherhood and brothers ministering to God s people in the Countries of Japan I 4651 N 25th Street Arlington. Va 22250 Formosa Hong Kong Singapore I indonesia the Philippines. Zaire I tar-- Cameroon Guatemala Haiti the a Dominican Republic Brazil 1 A.ld-ess r., Ethiopia and Mozambique Are . _.. YOU willing to help us snare the ' - ' SrdtP Z,;I Good News of salvation with these 'r.;,. t1...ar , . - „e. Sc^,, col, ge people' , Send for tree brochure ! cc Angela Davis a white Soledad Prison guard. prosecution said that-the Brothers killed the guard during a riot in an attempt to escape The trial was" interrupted when George. Jackson's younger brother Jon, 19, tossed the defendants guns, I shouting, "Free All Political Prisoners!" The defendants strapped the shotgun to the judge's neck. Using him as a shield, they herded the prosecuting attorney and several jury members into a Hertz van. The Brothers drove out of the court house parking lot, thinking the police would not shoot-up a van full of respectable white people. Wrongo. When the smoke cleared, police discovered that Jon and all the defendants had been killed; all the rest ex cept one had been wounded by police bullets. The judge was blown apart as promised. You can see the pictures in "Life." Two years later Davis was acquitted of helping the Brothers escape. She is now working on her PhD. So much for the revolutionary. As a member of the Communist Party, she believes that j,L and when the USSR finances and supports the American workers' revolution, her people won't he treated so poorly. As a black intellectual, her mind was put through the social paper shfedder: As a child she, like her family and neighbors, believed in the "bootstrap" theory of social mobility. Work Work and ye shall be rewarded. Makes perfect sense. If one does not work, one will not achieve and is therefore a nigger a lazy, no-good nigger. Oddly enough, both her parents are college-educated. They taught all twelve grades in an all-black Birmingham, Ala. school. The Davis' neigh borhood etas comprised p. - imarily of blacks who had "made it." Angela Davis knew the parents of those four little w•••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••14 • • • • Bowl Everyday • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • - Friday and Saturday nights from mid- • • • • night till?? 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She and other blacks .had done their part to prove themselves, and they were still being shot at, lynched and denied a chance to suc ceed. Why? Davis found the answer in Marxism. The Marxist idea that the capitalists made blacks the scapegoat for society, so that the oppressed workers would have someone to look down on while still supporting the bosses, appealed to her. But now the revolutionary has been paid off. She has a comfortable job with the Communist Party and is working on her Ph.D. And her autobiography doesn't give a clue as to what her people are supposed to do now. Monday thru Saturday 3 games for $1.70 11:00 a.m. til 6:00 p.m. illiards $l.lO per hour Monday thru Friday 11:00 A.M. till 6:00 P.M. Weak album New Edgar Winter album lacks excitement of previous records By TOM MARCINKO Collegian Staff Writer THE EDGAR WINTER GROUP WITH RICK DERRINGER. Blue Sky PZ 33798. $6.98 list price '6 - What "The Edgar Winter Group with Rick Derringer" lacks ih distinction it makes up for in mediocrity. record review You'd think that two such talents could produce a decent rock record, but it's not so. Here's boring Philadelphia soul, bland ballads and a few half-hearted attempts at straight rock. "Cool Dance," "People Music," and "Diamond Eyes" are the obligatory disco cuts. Except for Winter's saxophone in "Cool Dance," they're total washouts. Paradise" and "Sides," a medley, mann to imitate LATEST RECORD the Edgar Winter Group, whose members include• Dan Hartman Winter, Rick Derringer and Chuck Ruff, features "boring Philadelphia soul, bland ballads and a few half-hearted attempts at straight rock." 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"Chainsaw" is a gimmicky instrumental attempt to remake the single "Frankenstein" of a few years back The Winter Group fails even in that modest goal. tAIL,9f the playing and singing is at least competent. hut a t o energetic performance might have carried through many of the weak compositions. In rock, there is no greater sin than boredom. If there's a rock 'n' roll heaven, the Minter Group had better repent, and quickly. Only in "J.A.P. (Just Another Punk)" does Derringer save the album from total blandness. It's reminiscent of his "Rock 'n' Roll Hootchie Koo" from a couple of summers ago That's really scraping the bottom. On a truly good album this Nk out(i be a throwaway cut. "You know I'm always looking for that new buzz, but all ever find is pain," Derringer sings. Let that be a warning. V, won't get many buzzes from this, and boredom is a type pain. Be sure to phone
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