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...graced the show with his presence, the audience filed out after the final number - "All You Need Is Love," with four large screens displaying photo and film collages of the actual Fab Four - but one man seemed rooted to his seat. A thin fellow of about 60, with long gray hair that pony-tailed down his back, he held his head in his hands, his shoulders lurching as he sobbed softly. Such is the power of the Beatles' music, their impact, their legacy. And such is the intensity of retrieved memory in the generation that grew up with them...
...Martin; and of the original Beatlemaniacs. Forty years after John said the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus," 40 summers after the release of Revolver, these one-time-teen fans are now their grandparents' age and - if they make the trip to the appropriately named Mirage, and if the gray-haired hippie in the bleachers is any indication - moist in reverie...
...William C. Marra contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Evan H. Jacobs can be reached at ehjacobs@fas.harvard.edu...
...among others-one after another, laid down their arms, the fifty-six-year-old president, deep into spring, still nourished stubborn hopes. If he could somehow link up with Southern troops still in the field, perhaps those in Texas under General Edmund Kirby Smith, he and his brethren in gray might reconstitute themselves as a guerilla movement. And, if they could do that, who knew how long the Confederacy might be able to fight on? Perhaps long enough to exhaust a war-weary northern public...
...From SEA OF GRAY by Tom Chaffin, published by Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux LLC. Copyright (c) 2006. All rights reserved...