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...year for radical student revolt, 1969 was the heyday for militant Feminism. Mention "'69" to anyone who participated and watch the lines in her face tighten with nostalgia. She too looks as if the phrase were but an echo, or a ghost of an activism that passed away somewhere, she's not sure where...
...diplomatic front, Cámpora established ties with Cuba and announced his intention of recognizing East Germany and North Korea. Cámpora also decided to restore the Eva Perón Foundation, which, during El Lider's heyday in the late 1940s and early 1950s, funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in donations to the poor...
Seott Joplin: The Red Back Book (New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, Gunther Schuller conducting. Angel; $5.98). Rag is essentially piano music, but in Scott Joplin's heyday (1897-1917) many of his most popular rags were orchestrated for marching, singing, dancing and just plain strutting. The orchestrations, New Orleans in style (squeaky clarinets and feisty trumpets), make good listening too. Indeed there is not a pianist around these days who-so far, at least-can match the cascading joy of these performances...
...reader drop the bemused distance at will. The storyteller is a "fella name a' Smith; first name a' Word." Word Smith is a sagacious, grizzled and altogether senile old sportswriter with a penchant for alliteration and a lively obsession for the American idiomatic phrase. In the heyday of baseball -- the twenties, the thirties, the forties -- Smitty had written a column entitled "One Man's Opinion" for the Finest Family Newspapers chain. He covered the Patriot League, and most particularly the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless team in the history of the game, and later found to be infested with Communists...
GOOD POLITICAL NOVELS will come out of the new politics. Too often "political" novels have been gossipy adventure stories with no involvement in either the theoretical or the gut issues of politics. It is no longer possible -- as it was in the heyday of Drury, Burdick, Uris, and Knebel -- to write such political escapism. For the political novel to become valuable, as writers like Sheed so clearly desire, it must live up to its own name by intensifying its political content...