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...Copland, classic blues and '70s California pop); it gives symphonic heft to his cagey misanthropy, makes the tunes endlessly listen-to-able. The jauntiest tune in the new set, a sashaying march for Great Nations of Europe, accompanies a brilliantly bleak history of New World colonization, slaughter and disease ("Columbus sailed for India/ Found Salvador instead/He shook hands with some Indians and soon they all were dead/They got TB and typhoid and athlete's foot/Diphtheria and the flu/Excuse me--Great Nations coming through!"). The song's caustic end: that "some bug from out of Africa" might destroy America "like...
...hundred years ago, we fixed it. The period from 1890 to 1910 saw the invention of most of the major civic institutions of American life today, including the Boy Scouts, the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, Knights of Columbus, organized labor unions, the Rotary Club, the Kiwanis Club, and the YMCA...
...tournament: Oklahoma State, Ohio State, Florida International and Providence. In those games, Harvard is 2-4, with wins over the Sooners Mar. 26 in Homestead, Fla., and the Friars Apr. 15 at O'Donnell Field. The Buckeyes received a No. 1 seed and host a regional in Columbus, Ohio...
...tournament: Oklahoma State, Ohio State, Florida International and Providence. In those games, Harvard is 2-4, with wins over the Sooners Mar. 26 in Homestead, Fla., and the Friars Apr. 15 at O'Donnell Field. The Buckeyes received a No. 1 seed and host a regional in Columbus, Ohio...
...inroads on American pop music--Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades, Gloria Estefan, Ritchie Valens, Los Lobos, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Machito, Willie Colon, Tito Puente and many, many others have, for decades now, scored hits, excited crowds and pioneered new sounds. TIME's "discovering" Latin pop would be a bit like Columbus discovering Puerto Rico...