Word: discs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boston radio stations, like those of most major U.S. cities, display minimal imagination in their programming. The two best-rated stations play a standard fare of top-forty rock, interspersed with the loud vacantminded prattle of their disc jockeys. Most of the rest divide air time between soupic housewife music (Mantovani, Perry Como) and the insufferable boring call-us-up-and-talk-about-it shows. A handful of FM stations play classical music regularly, but it still remains difficult to find good folk music or jazz--even on the FM band. The one noble exception to the dismal norm...
This is the first time astronomers have been able to study the upper atmosphere of the sun over the whole face of the solar disc rather than just at the edge of the disc during an eclipse...
After the list is gone through once, the disc jockeys will pull songs from the list as they wish. To get the full impact of the list then, a Friday night all-nighter is necessary. Before you bother to consider such a step, however, bear in mind some of the following items, culled from an advance list graciously supplied by promotion director Harvey Mednick...
...tottered to number 11 in the City of the Angels, but made it nowhere around the country. In November, several Los Angeles deejays started playing excerpts from the first album and all at once they received many many requests for a song called "Light My Fire." So one such disc jockey asked Elektra, the Doors' recording company, to press a shorter version and release it as a single. Since January it has become a million-seller. The record made history, of some kind...
calls himself "Disc Jockey to America," suggesting that his stream of consciousness represents the whole nation on the couch. As for the story, and mercifully there is one, DJ. loves-hates his rich father, a victim of all alleged Texas hang-ups, notably insecure masculinity. Mailer plunks father, son and a couple of unholy Texas ghosts in Alaska's Brooks Mountain Range on a safari in search of manhood. Naturally, they cheat: in orgiastically killing a wolf, numerous caribou and three grizzlies, the hunters unsportingly use a helicopter instead of their feet. Though he hardly clarifies his intention, Mailer...