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...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...
...years are Edward Kennedy and Walter Mondale, although each talks vaguely and modestly of his future. "They'll both start running for '84," said one Carter aide, "and it will be great for party fund raising, because they'll vie to see who goes to more Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners." Both Kennedy and Mondale have built up substantial political IOUs this year. Mondale's dogged and solitary stumping around the nation for Carter has built him a large and loyal constituency within the party. The doubts about Mondale have always focused on his belly: Is there...
...extent, the obligations our language owes to various authors for ... 'household words.' " The New England household of 1855 was devoutly high-minded. About one-third of Bartlett's quotations came from Shakespeare and the Bible, the rest mostly from worthy English poets. Among the unincluded: Washington, Jefferson, Thoreau...
...ecological problems. The department in turn said that it was relying on the oil companies to prevent environmental damage. Declared Bragg: "We know that people are concerned with the environment. So are we." Twenty years ago, most citizens would have been satisfied with such statements. But, like other Americans, Jefferson Township inhabitants are now haunted by memories of things like the Santa Barbara Channel spill, charges of oil price manipulation and a deep suspicion of uranium itself, a substance once so devoutly sought after...
DIED. Edward V. Jones, 71, architect and interior designer who carried out authentic period restorations at the White House (including the Oval Office), the State Department reception and drawing rooms (taking inspiration from 19th century Philadelphia houses, 18th century Virginia interiors and the notebooks of Thomas Jefferson), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; of a heart attack; in Albany...