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Dates: during 1980-1989
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VREMYA (The Discovery Channel, May 29 to June 2, 9 p.m. EDT). While Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Moscow, the Soviet Union's nightly newscast (its title in English: Time) will be transmitted to U.S. viewers for the first time...
...Story magazine; Elizabeth Murray, a friend; Judge Learned Hand, a New England neighbor; and Hamish Hamilton and Roger Machell, the author's British publishers. The young Salinger was full of strong opinions and pithy wisecracks. His view of U.S. publishing: "Everybody over here who's ever taught Senior English for a couple of semesters, or worked for a good upholsterer, has considered himself qualified to collect and edit a short story anthology...
...defeated the Spanish Armada, thereby paving the way for its rise as a world power. This year Britons are saluting the victory with pageants, bonfires and banquets. Trouble is, the occasion has also spawned scholarly works and an exhibit at the National Maritime Museum that debunk myths about the English victory. Among them: that the genius of Sir Francis Drake was almost solely responsible for Spain's defeat. These accounts argue that stormy weather contributed powerfully to the armada's defeat...
...tournament, which ran from May 12-15, coincided with the last critical days of reading period. It also marked the last few days for studying before the "big classes"--The Cultural Revolution, English 10, Jazz, and Ec 10--had their exams...
...this a lovely day? Jerome Kern once summed up Berlin's place in & American popular music by observing: "Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music." Way back when, George M. Cohan spotted the appeal of the man who had "named himself after an English actor and a German city." Berlin, said the Yankee doodle dandy, "writes a song with a good lyric, a lyric that rhymes, good music, music you don't have to dress up to listen to. He is uptown, but he is there with the old downtown hard sell...