Word: heyday
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DIED. Daniel Daniel, 91, for more than half a century a leading writer on baseball and boxing and a founder and former editor of Ring magazine; after surgery for a stomach tumor; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Daniel covered baseball from 1909, the heyday of Ty Cobb, until the 1974 World Series, which he reported for the Sporting News, mostly for the now defunct New York World-Telegram and New York World-Telegram...
Harvard Square may come back--summer nights, dope and music, a little politics. If it ever does, it will again need a paper like the Realp, the old verslon. Every community needs a rag. But the Square may never return to its late 60s heyday, it may melt away before a wave of franchise pizzerlas and suburban money. In that case, the passing of the paper is just a poignant reminder of how things have changed. The Real Paper tried to change with its audience; perhaps to its credit, it couldn't keep...
...heyday the Barbizon was both legend and landmark. Innumerable were the tales of ardent swains who essayed in vain to penetrate the upper floors disguised as doctors or dads. Mae Sibley, a bright-eyed sprite who was the hotel's assistant manager and housemother to the girls, kept close tabs on their comings and goings. A girl needed three good references to be considered for admission, and then was graded by such criteria as family, looks, dress and demeanor...
...propels the traditional rock song. Martial music is supposed to excite sentimental feelings of patriotism and community, then harness them to aggressive instincts; rock songs stir up adolescent anger and lust, and--depending on which side of 1970 you grew up on--either ignite or dissipate them. During the heyday of today's rock idiom, in the mid-'60s, the goals of the two types of music were identical: if you listened to the Jefferson Airplane's "Volunteers," you were supposed to get out in the street, join the volunteers of America" and fight for the revolution...
Longing for the past is reinforced by the corporate message that all would be well if we would just go back to the values that characterized American capitalism in its heyday of 100 to 150 years ago, Ansara said...