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...story commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Fab Four's conquest of America, I detailed the initial mainstream U.S. response: that they were a passing fancy, that their music was derivative, and that the funniest thing about them were their haircuts. It was the last gasp of an adult establishment that felt secure in dismissing anything new, scorning anything young; and the Beatles were both. (George Harrison, when he and his mates made their Sullivan debut, was younger than Kevin Jonas is now.) In the intervening decades, the mainstream has learned its lesson: not to deride what kids love...
...Roger Lowenstein describes in his book While America Aged, it was the remarkable UAW president Walter Reuther (1907-70) who won womb-to-tomb health-care coverage and retirement benefits for the rank and file. Reuther was an early advocate of universal health-care coverage, which was not going to fly in Washington. So he willingly traded small pay raises for deferred compensation in the form of pensions and retirement health care. The Big Three gladly signed on because the trade-off held down cash wages - and because they were lushly profitable companies, controlling 90% of the U.S. car market...
...trade will help reduce emissions, but it may not be enough to reach the budget’s goals of a 14-percent reduction below 2005 levels by 2020, and 83 percent by 2050. Such drastic, long-term reductions will depend on a low-emission energy infrastructure for America, which can only be developed with alternative energy technology...
...career. The dancers capture the spirit of each piece as Balanchine intended it to be perceived. Balanchine’s career began in Russia’s St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet. After the Russian Revolution, he moved on to France in the twenties and thirties and finally to America where his artistic genius took off. In “Emeralds,” “Rubies” and “Diamonds,” Balanchine evokes each country that formed the basis of his career—their national spirit and the spirit of their ballet...
...which had been founded by her father in 1950. According to Cardullo’s daughter, Donez J. Cardullo-Tavilla, Cardullo “literally traveled all over the world,” bringing back “true delicacies” that could not be found anywhere in America. Cardullo-Tavilla added that her warmest memories of Cardullo involved “food, food, food.” She said her father was a devoted food connoisseur who always insisted on using the best ingredients. “It was unheard of to have a frozen dinner, to have...