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...founding member and past president of the Republican National Lawyers Association, Hope's clients have included Missouri Pacific Railroad and Air Florida, as well as actress Brooke Shields and the family of the late billionaire J. Paul Getty. Her billings reportedly account for nearly half the business generated by her firm's Washington office...
Over time, historians have found other, quieter "revolutions," with a noble legacy worthy of an intellectual defense. Recently, Eric Foner, in his account of the Reconstruction period, portrayed the time as a brief period of true emancipation for Blacks in America. He implicitly called for contemporary America to live up to the vision of racial equality of that time...
Based on Levine's account, the answer, in part, seems to be that American cultural behavior was genuinely different in the early to mid-19th century. Urban workers did spend their free time listening to theater performances which included magic tricks, physical comedy and Shakespearean soliloquys. Bands larger than current ensembles but smaller than full-fledged orchestras would perform both classical music and popular ditties. In the case of Shakespeare, Levine cleverly demonstrates how well people knew the Bard's works by providing examples of the careful, complex parodies of Shakespeare's plays that were performed in the mid-19th...
...have been romanticized by some as 'fabulous, fun' times," the dean wrote, "However,...[a] historical account of the times will show the 50s as a time which was indeed painful, complicated and even life threatening for people of color...
...become the dominant mode of AIDS-virus transmission. New York State expects 3,500 new AIDS cases among addicts this year, vs. 2,700 among gays. In New Jersey 59% of those who developed the disease last year were intravenous drug abusers. Overseas the story is the same: addicts account for about 65% of the new AIDS victims in Spain and 67% in Italy...