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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particular examples of "revolutionary" songs indicate a phenomenon that ought to moderate one's sense of disappointment with The Beatles. This is that the Beatles have always tended to innovate in single releases rather than on their albums--when the breakthrough comes it is in one staggering, concentrated dose. This process is quite different from Bob Dylan's, for example, who evolves musically in well-marked steps from album to album. Dylan's single releases are almost incidental to his overall output...
...deacon of Miami's First Presbyterian Church, Lee stoutly insists that there is no better rehabilitation than a stiff dose of churchgoing. To enforce his sentence, he requires each offender to write a weekly letter describing what he learned from the Sunday sermon. The effect of the preaching is sometimes questionable. One 15-year-old girl wrote what Chronicles 1:29 meant to her: "We are time watchers and punch clocks." Another boy complained: "This lesson I didn't understand at all. I did not know what he was talking about...
...show ended with a wretched recording of "America the Beautiful" accompanied by sustained shots of amber waves of grain, purpose mountains...right on up to brotherhood at which the screen flashed an extra dose of shining seas...
...Your article on hyperkinesis ("Those Mean Little Kids") [Oct. 18] was as welcome as our son's first dose of Ritalin. It is difficult to send a child out into the day, knowing that he will charge headfirst into a multitude of unacceptable activities, as he did yesterday, as he will tomorrow. It is more difficult to know that he will be punished and ridiculed for behavior he cannot easily control. The next time I am told that I'm a nut, my doctor is a quack and my son is a brat who just needs a good...
Although ingenious theories have been advanced to explain this paradoxical effect of methylphenidate, the mechanism of its action is unknown. The drug has few side effects, the two most notable being a slight loss of appetite and a tendency to insomnia if the last dose is taken too late at night...