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That was the glue...
...definitely a Harvard-oriented ambience," Tepperman says. "That was the glue...
...hear records by such guitar masters as B.B. King and Lightnin' Hopkins was to tune late at night to far-flung radio outposts like Chicago's WLS and pirate stations along the Mexican border. Twenty-four years and many albums later, that shared appreciation is still the glue that binds "the little ol' band from Texas." "We wanted to listen mostly to the blues and early rock bands that drove our parents crazy," recalls Gibbons. "They still stand with an intensity that has not evaporated." Teenagers all over America will no doubt tune in to Antenna for the very same...
...rather abstract, but it is the essential reason that a society as incredibly diverse as ours can hold together despite the natural tendencies of humans to hate and fear those who are different. American ideals, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and codified in the Constitution, are the glue that keeps us together and allows us to form a common culture in which all can be included, a culture that has indeed been forming for hundreds of years, long before the cries of "diversity" and "ethnocentrism" began to emanate from the universities...
...anyone who has wondered how the lithe, scantily clad, and sexually uninhibited gypsy girl of Merimee's novel came to be transformed in the opera houses of mid-twentieth century America into the postured prima donna in the floor-lenght dress whose idea of sexual flirtation is to glue her chin to her chest and to peep out coquettishly from behind a feathered black fan. The initially negative reaction of the audience at Carmen's premiere in Paris (an audience who went to the Opera Comique expecting the equivalent of G-rated "family" opera) did not preclude its later phenomenal...