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BILL HALEY is the earliest rock auteur (which chronologically places him somewhere between Johnny Ray and Elvis Presley). Not only did Haley accomplish rock's conquest of the pop charts with Rock Around the Clock, he molded a cheerful, sincerely synthetic style that brought him hits like Shake, Rattle, and Roll and See Ya Later, Allgiator, and enabled him and his Comets to appropriate any old song for rock's use--remember, for instance, Rockin' Through the Rye. (While speaking of Haley, we might note the best successor to his practices, Johnny and the Hurricanes. Though not properly belonging...
Obvious Attempt. East Germans had expected Ulbricht to present his new set of laws at the very earliest on June 30, when he celebrates his 75th birthday. His haste to push the constitution through at the earliest possible date is an obvious attempt to buttress his own position at a time when change and unrest are sweeping over his two closest Communist neighbors, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The last surviving Stalinist ruler in the Soviet bloc, Ulbricht feels ill at ease and isolated. As matters stand today in Eastern Europe, his introduction of such a backward-looking document may make...
...many simply got lost in the shuffle. A surprisingly large number of famous first films are missing in America: Sternberg's The Salvation Hunters, De Mille's The Squaw Man, Ford's first feature Straight Shooting and many of Griffith's earliest films, to name...
...mutually accepted interplay between at least two persons who repeat it at intervals and in recurrent contexts and which has an adaptive value for the go of each participant--a condition fully met by the way a mother and baby greet each other in the morning. From this earliest ritual, Erikson traces the process through childhood and into adolescence, where it acquires ideology which gives coherence to values and ideals, and structure to ideas...
...uppermost levels of the Administration and the Pentagon, where optimism has been endemic from the war's earliest days, officials were still trying to find something comforting in the recent Communist Tet offensive despite all of the evidence to the contrary. Vice President Hubert Humphrey declared that the Saigon regime "if anything has been strengthened by the attack," and on TV the U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, Ellsworth Bunker, in effect agreed. Despite some qualifications made by both men, such statements sounded absurd (see THE WORLD...