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...Shoeless Wonder. In the Brubeck home at Concord, Calif, (pop. 12,493), his mother kept five pianos. Dave was playing the piano by the time he was four; he started searching almost as soon as his fingers touched the keys. Instead of practicing the method of famed Piano Pedagogue Tobias Matthay, used by his mother for her stream of pupils, little David spent every minute that the keyboard was free picking out pieces of his own. He tried harder to please his father (who gave him four cows when he was eight and called Dave his "partner"); later he learned...
...writing with reference to the interesting situation created by various legislators in Providence, Boston, and Concord, N.H. While the remainder of the U.S. is abandoning Daylight Saving Time for the winter, these gentlemen would have us continue with what purports to be Eastern Daylight Saving Time. This is a misnomer, since such time has been abandoned everywhere else. The truth is that we are being led on a temporary sojourn into the Atlantic Standard Time Zone...
...carried her to Hollywood in 1919, and here the sober script calls a thoroughly slap-happy recess to watch a flag-waving Helen, as the star of the film Deliverance (supposedly based on her life story), lead the charge of a revolutionary rabble across something that looks suspiciously like Concord Bridge...
Robert K. Donovan, Andover, History; David E. Pingree, Andover, Classics and Sanskrit; William Alonso, Arlington, Architectural Sciences; Charles M. McEwen, Jr., Arlington, Germanic Languages and Literature; Alexander Welsh, Brookline, English; John G. Benedict, Cambridge, English; Robert A. G. Monks, Cohasset, History; William M. Calder, Concord, Latin; Herbert B. Olfson, Dorchester, Economics; Daniel J. Collins, Jr., Haverhill, Chemistry; John F. Wilson, Hopkinton, Government; Richard C. Hirschhorn, Longmeadow, Biology; Jaroslaw Bilinskij, Milton, Government; Robert D. Papkin, New Bedford, Government; Martin A. Goldman, Newton, Economics; Stephen J. Healey, III, Newton, Biology; Jordan Joseph, Roxbury, Biochemical Sciences; Kent W. Frederickson, Saugus, English; Lyman...
Toppling Empires. Imperialism's first great setback is easily pinpointed. It happened near Concord, Mass, one spring day in 1775. The American Revolution served notice that independence can be not only a faith but a fact. The faith spread like quicksilver-to Latin America, where Bolivar ousted the Spaniards, and the Portuguese beat a retreat; to Europe itself, where it mingled with British liberalism and the surge of the French Revolution (1789) to stir Poles, Czechs and Hungarians into clamor for nationhood. Imperialism in Europe faltered; it went down to defeat in the carnage of major...