IN SHORT, there are many evils in the world today--one should do something about them.

Abrasive confrontation-demonstrations are imperfect responses and their inadequacies both in terms of cost and achievements trouble all of us--but they, unlike the Beatles' snide noninvolvement, are a response.

For the Beatles to attack the militant protestors while ignoring, as they have done for too long, the objects of the protests reveals a weird sense of priorites.

Our sense of betrayal is made even more acute by the fact that the Beatles are such formidable anatagonists. 'Revolution' is a great record. The music is gripping and explosive from the Chuck Berry riff that opens the song, to the bar of feedback that ends it, and the lyrics are some of John Lennon's most rythmically controlled. And when at then end Lennon, rasping shouts, the challenge "All Right" over and over again one trembles in disbelief and honor that he is shouting at the wrong people.

"Hey Jude", the flip side, is of the Beatles telling a boy to have courage and make the plunge to claim his girl ("You have found her/Now go and get her"). When the Beatles are urged basically the same thing in "She Loves You," they openly and joyously exhorted; "Hey Jude" is inexpressibly tender, muted and moving. The push into passion that the Beatles delicately say for their friend

And anytime you feel the pain

Hey Jude refrain.

Don't carry the world upon your shoulder

For well you know that its a fool who plays it cool

By making his world a little colder and the gentleness and firmness of one friend to another that they show

You're waiting for someone to perform with.

And don't you know that its just you

Hey Jude you'll do! both combine to make of the song a perfect vehicle for expressing, unexpectedly and delightfully, that tremulous and tenuous relationship that one has with a girl in the early encounters. "Hey Jude" is of the genre Romantic Ballad, but with characteristic genius the Beatles have transformed and revitalized the concept.

Musically, the song is a mixture of the burbling sighs and grunts of "Hello-Goodbye" (one magnificent nasal intake of breath after the line 'Remember to let her other lines from pervious verses) and the wavering, broad-based melody punctuated by Ringo's superb stabbing drums of 'All You Need Is Love'.

So the Beatles do it again and it is only left to affirm, in spite of the shock of distrust introduced into the relationship by the slap in "Revolution", that I, and you, still love and respect the Beatles.