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...readiness to flaunt opposition to the adult world-was eager to accept the rough, driving new sound. Written originally as an M.A. thesis, The Sound of the City sometimes gives off a faint odor of scholarly stuffiness. It is startling to see early greats like Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and Bo Diddley referred to, in the best tradition of academic criticism, by their surnames. Saying Domino without Fats or Diddley without Bo just seems wrong, somehow...
...courts, the no-fault plan has a chance to work. The legislature's insurance committee did agree last week to let insurers refuse to renew policies for some bad drivers, but insurers regard the change as inadequate. If the deadlock persists, Armstrong fears, there will be "a domino effect." Some auto insurers will pull out of the state; other companies, unhappy at the prospect of taking on money-losing business, will either resist writing new policies on unwanted high-risk cases-or else quit the state. Eventually, many drivers with less-than-perfect records will be unable to purchase...
...President and some students proceed from vastly different assumptions. The President says, "America has never lost a war," as if "winning" or "losing" were the important consideration. He seems to them to hold attitudes, derived from the Cold War, such as the domino theory, and to view Communism in Southeast Asia as a source of danger to America. Wrongly or rightly, many of our best informed students do not share these assumptions...
...took on a line of phonograph records and soon began to produce them. He helped to develop the now illegal "payola" system of bribing radio stations to plug his records, and in the 1950s, he launched concert tours with artists like Lionel Hampton, Nat King Cole and Fats Domino. "I was the first one to say," he claims, that "the big bands were going to die and be replaced by rhythm and blues." Feld's talent discoveries included Errol Garner and Paul Anka. But, in what may be the monumental show-biz goof of all times, he decided...
...being much more than interesting (and, for the inexperienced, substantiating), it also makes him a compelling advocate in front of everyone else. His impulses from his pre-Harvard days are manifestly decent and humane, by almost anyone's definition. In the bitter cross-currents of the Sixties, when the Domino Theory rhetoric was abating without a suitable replacement and more and more people began to wonder just exactly what we were doing all over the world, it was inevitable that Cowan should lose his innocence. In his hard-learned (and well-documented) discovery that powerful men were not in fact...