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...headed for the office at the blazing 15 m.p.h. demanded by the bumpy, unpaved road. Back at the house, his wife kneaded the dough for the day's bread, then took soap and dishcloth to wash the Mason jars in which she was about to preserve apple butter. When she hurried out to get provisions, it meant going to the grocer, the butcher, the druggist, and the hardware store to get all the items on her list. By the time she got home, it was far too late to stop by for a chat with her neighbor Gladys, five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: AND 50 YEARS OF CAPITALISM | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

Suddenly he leaps to his feet and breaks into Nadine. The lights bathe him in gently pulsating psychedelic color. Behind him, The Butter hurry to catch up with some left-over noise from their last acid-rock number...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Chuck Berry: Old-Time Music Grows Old | 11/14/1967 | See Source »

...dying screams of The Butter melt away, a fat boy in a blue pull-over sweater strolls on stage with a hand-mike. His introduction is an endless chain of bad jokes that is finally interrupted when Chuck Berry steps awkwardly on stage. This time the applause is polite, if only a burst of relief...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Chuck Berry: Old-Time Music Grows Old | 11/14/1967 | See Source »

Dressed in a white shirt, waist-hugging black jacket and black tie, Berry seems grotesquely out of place. Behind him stands The Butter, squirming self-consciously in non-conformist natty tweed, marred corduroy and blue denim...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Chuck Berry: Old-Time Music Grows Old | 11/14/1967 | See Source »

...Butter establishes the big non-Berry beat, Berry closes his eyes and hangs his head. His fingers break idly into stray chords from Roll Over, Beethoven, and finally he half-heartedly picks up the lyrics...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Chuck Berry: Old-Time Music Grows Old | 11/14/1967 | See Source »

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