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Though the proliferation of jukeboxes and discotheques has winnowed the ranks of the cocktail pianists since their heyday in the 1950s, most U.S. cities have at least one velvet-lined cave where night-lifers go to swig and sway to their favorite mood merchants. Among the best of them...
...Prime Decades. Primitive American painters have flourished from the time of the Quaker sign painter Edward Hicks (Peaceable Kingdom) to Grandma Moses, but their heyday was between those two great upheavals, the American Revolution, which released in a new nation the sense that "every man is a king," and the Civil War, which coincided with the steamroller uniformity of the industrial age. And even these prime decades went largely unnoticed and unappreciated until the 1920s. Their rediscovery was the work of American artists who recognized that in early American folk art there was a valid commentary on the American scene...
...through my two years at the school," says Meldon Levine (Berkeley '64), "they tried to discourage me from going for a Ph.D." Levine, a Berkeley student government leader before the heyday of the Free Speech Movement, had applied to the Woodrow Wilson School with the intention of becoming a teacher. In light of the school's obvious dislike, even then, for Ph.D. types, he was surprised to learn he had been admitted. But the campaign to turn him away from teaching ultimately had its effect, if not quite the desired one. Today Levine is a first-year student at Harvard...
...heyday of Communism at "Little Moscow on the Charles" has passed and the Students for a Democratic Society have come of age. But the influence of the Communists in New Left groups remains a subject of much speculation not only among habitual red-baiters, but also among members...
Times change, and so does the Supreme Court-sometimes quite rapidly. In 1952, during Senator Joseph McCarthy's heyday, the court confirmed the validity of New York State's Feinberg Law, barring subversives from the public-school system. The matter seemed settled then and there. Last week the court ruled again on the Feinberg Law. This time it reversed itself, ruling by a vote of 5 to 4 that the law is now unconstitutional. Such short-term reversal is not unprecedented, but it does require agile rethinking on the court's part. The 1952 case, decided...