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...time I saw California I was two years old. I was really prepared for some kind of Culture Shock when I got out there. I was looking forward to getting a taste of the Southern California Mystique. See a couple of movie stars or something, maybe run into Charies Bronson or Lee Remick. Well, I didn't see any movie stars, but I did see a hell of a lot of people who thought they were. The dress code in California is Show-What-You-Got, even if you don't got it. You see a lot of overweight, middle...
...literary currents and political conflicts in Hawthorne's day, yet he rarely makes any attempt to place Hawthorne in their midst. He offers no interpretation of Hawthorne's relationship to the Transcendentalists, only observing that "the politics of Concord, transcendental or otherwise, were never to Hawthorne's liking." Bronson Alcott, one of the most famous of the transcendental teachers, lived down the street from Hawthorne's home in Concord; yet the most telling detail that Mellow discloses about the relationship between the two men is that Hawthorne's wife helped Alcott's daughter to mark her clothes with indelible...
Fortunately, the staying power of the programs is doubtful, as the recent casualties show. Still, gore springs eternal at the networks. This month, ABC plans' to air the second installment of Catastrophe! No Safe Place, a three-part disaster roundup in which Charles Bronson narrates horrors like the Hindenburg explosion; and The World's Most Spectacular Stunt Man, a special featuring four feats by a Hollywood pro. It could be, cracks PBS Producer Tony Geiss, that public TV may be forced to counter with its own entry in the reality competition: That's Intelligent. -By Martha Smilgis...
They were not welcomed. Bostonians--who enjoyed a high standard of living--were generally smug about living in the country's religious and cultural center. "The morality of Boston is more pure than that of any city in America," Bronson Alcott wrote in 1828, and the citizens of Cambridge extended his judgement to themselves...
...have now become 48. "You've got to have a job or be going to school," says Sliwa. "And your motivation can't be one of revenge. I've turned down over 30 people who wanted in for the same reason as Charles Bronson in Death Wish-because somebody in their family has been attacked." Recruits are first tested for reflexes and ability to go without sleep, then for tolerance of verbal abuse, as Sliwa calls them "nigger" or "spik," the least of the taunts they may get in the subway. Nearly every volunteer has been excited...