THE BEATLES, A STUDY IN DRUGS, SEX AND REVOLUTION David A. Noebel Christian Crusade Publications ... (Box 977, Tulsa, Okla. 74102)

�Time magazine wrote that �Rainy Day Woman� by Bob Dylan was taken off the air by many radio Stations because of its drug implications. It turned out that �Rainy Day Woman� in junky lingo was a marijuana cigarette ...�

�. . . She says �the Monkees� number, �I�m a Believer,� is ostensibly a love song, but we all know it refers to drugs.��

. Benzedrine (called Beenies)...�

�Literally hundreds of drug-pushing discs are available and for our teen-agers� consumption: �Acapulco Gold� . . . �Bend Me, Shape Me� . . . �Blue Cheer� . .. �Two Thousand Light Years from Here� . .. �You Turn Me On� ...�

� .. . marijuana is habit-forming and with continued use it is addictive ... �

*�If and when the Beatles seriously kick the drug habit...�

�John, however, has to be the winner when it comes to flaunting morality ... his immoral antics with his Japanese girlfriend, Yoko Ono, (now his wife) have reached world-wide proportions.�

� . . . his rude, profane and vulgar, A Spaniard in the Works ... Our Lord was sacrilegiously attacked . . . the far left publication Realities, grants the book is �pretty dirty.� �

�In other words, Christ is to be portrayed as a beatnik (i.e., one who sometimes bathes)...�

� . . . �Revolution 9,� an eight minute and fifteen second piece which if listened to under the right ingredients of drugs, could spell revolution with a capital R.�

� ... avant-garde sex ...�

� . . . �Back in the U.S.S.R.,� which is currently the top hit in the Soviet Union. Obviously the lyrics have left even the Reds speechless ...�

So cough up your dollar — for Him, for yourself — and spend a few light hours, between rosaries or what have you, laughing along with the zany, meta-carbonic logoi antix of this god groupie�s slapstick routine. A laff riot for the young and young at heart! Whether you�re 19 or 99 your funnybone is in for a workout when today�s �hippie flower children� come under the scrutiny of this lovable, whacky sin queen�s biting pen. A �groove� for �square� and �swinger� alike!

Nick Tosches

THE GREENING OF AMERICA Charles Reich Random House

The Greening of America is out in paperback! JUST IN TIME for summer adult education courses and next fall�s trimester freshman seminar, Conciousness 1, 2 and 3. Now wait for the movie.

The movie will be instant nostalgia. Our hero Charles is a sensitive, well-bred Ivy League graduate student who is more than a little turned-off by what he sees around him, what with the vicious decit of the Corporate State, the vapid miasma of suburban confusion, the smug conformity of law school, not to mention the televised disintegration of the civilized world. See him watching CBS documentaries while reading Marcuse, Galbraith, Paul Goodman, Edgar Friedenberg, and — Christ — Karl Marx! See him get more and more depressed.

See Charles arrive in Berkeley (use footage of Stanford, Acapulco and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge). See Charles see hippies, go to the park, get a joint laid on him, take it back to the hotel and smoke it. See Charles smile! He goes back to New Haven where everyone is still frowning. He waits two years (leaves fall, snow falls, snow melts, green trees, leaves fall. . . ) and a new freshman class comes to town, long hair, beads, love. Charles smiles again. Charles writes a book putting down his old friends and putting up his new friends. Charles is having so much fun in the Stiles-Morris dining room that he doesn�t notice the leaves fall, snow fall, slush Or any of that. It�s just greening all the time.

Not that you haven�t seen the movie before. Or lived parts of it. Like the Pentagon Papers there�s nothing really new in Greening of America ex cept how the story�s told and (most important) the reaction. In 1969, The Greening of America was a book whose time had come, even though it was centered squarely in 1966-67.

Now it is 1971 and you have to wonder. Who will read this book? I nominate several categories: (1) the same kind of people who read the $7.95 version but were caught in the economic slump and couldn�t afford to buy i{, (2) the people who thought the movie Love Story was a bit much, but who really liked the book* (3) the recently turned-on fraternity longhairs who showed up at the Louisiana �Festival of Hype.�

David Crosby once said that he could riot understand why Sergeant Pepper�s Lonely Hearts Club Band did not end the war in Viet Nam. Neither do I. And I really admire Charles Reich for writing this book. It is • an informative and sincere autobiography. He began it ten years ago as a gloomy analysis of the corporate state and the forthcoming closed society. But suddenly he found hope in the new awarenesses of the young. Terrific. There are layers of society — though they must be pretty thin by npw — who still haven�t got the message, one way or another. This book was and is for them. The rest of us might have felt that Reich�s analysis of the Counter-Consciousness was more complete, more fair, than a simple description of your average likeable freaky Yale freshman. He claims that the kind of conciousness III people he describes cannot survive �in the far more oppressive world outside the universities.� But there are counter-consciousness people out in the world, have been and there might have been a bit more reality to the book had their problems, strategies and modes of survival been discussed.

Greening can still remind us that, although the simple distinctions of 1967 are no longer operational, they are still valid. But we do have to move on. Because we already have.

In its own way, The Greening of America is the college days nostalgia of the class of �67. Gee to be young and green (ing) again ...

William Kowinski

GOV�T INSPECTED MEAT AND OTHER FUN SUMMER THINGS Dotson Rader David McKay Company

Dotson Rader�s Gov�t Inspected Meat and Other Fun Summer Things is the most important novel by a young writer to be published since Richard Farina�s Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me.

Rader�s previous book, the autobiographical I Ain�t Mar chin� Anymore, established him as a writer who could give an honest and accurate picture of life among the disaffected in America.

In Gov�t Inspected Meat, Rader�s story revolves around the adventures, of a young male from Evanston who comes to New York to. make it as a hustler.

Rader realizes that there are two Americas. One is the America of the rich and middle class with its color televisions, suburban homes, Comfort, and security.

The other America is the America of the losers: the blacks, the poor, the young, homosexuals, the outcasts. Rader finds himself on the side: of the losers and victims.

Rader deals here with the themes that confront the victims of America: the rebellion of the young, racism, the relationship between young whites and blacks, the belief that' one can still �make it� in America by hustling.

Hustling is at the core of the American dream. The belief that eventually they will be a success if they try hard enough prevents the losers from giving up in despair. In the end, when the young hustler realizes there is no way out of his plight, the American dream is Shown to be a cruel nightmare of self-deception.

Technically, 'the novel is choppy. Characters appear briefly and then disappear. The novel reads more like a series of connected stories than as a single continuous work.

With Gov�t Inspected Meat and his previous writings, Rader has emerged as the major literary spokesman of America�s new lost generation.

Toni McCarthy