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...Jefferson Starship (I don't care what anyone says, they were better when they were just an airplane) will hit town the 19th and 20th, hovering in the Music Hall just long enough to give two concerts before blasting off again...
Other concerts to look out for are: Bruce Springsteen at the Music Hall on May 29-31 (if it isn't already sold out); Bonnie Raitt at Bentley College on the 27 and Brown U. on the 29; Jefferson Starship at the Music Hall on May 19-20. I personally recommend all three of these great shows, although I've never seen any of them in concert except the Starship, and that was years ago in Central Park in the rain and mud with 100,000 other people. (Those crowd estimates are never quite accurate...
...logic of Hamilton's ambitions dictated that he should have become President of the country he did so much to create; it is just as well that the honor escaped him. When Jefferson once remarked that he thought the greatest men in history were Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton and John Locke, Hamilton replied that, no, the greatest man who ever lived was Caesar...
Jimmy Carter is the closest thing to a scientist we have had in the White House since Thomas Jefferson. It may yet prove to be both a strength and a handicap. He moves with ease in the world where there are immutable laws of action and response, where figures line up and yield answers without argument, without any need for cajolery and bourbon. Much of his trouble in the mystical arena of political leadership arises when he tries to apply these bloodless principles to human power and pride...
...funny, unless they are mocked. TV humor, whether the players are black or white, now turns mostly on chaotic exaggeration, a great deal of it emanating from the workshop and social conscience of Producer Norman Lear. His Archie Bunker, after all, is a kind of blue-collar, honky George Jefferson, his whooping racial slurs rendered cute by being malapropped...