Word: johnson
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...with memory. As we think back over the 20th century, every decade has a melody, a rhythm, a sound track. The years and the sounds bleed together as we scan through them in our recollections, a car radio searching for a clear station. The century starts off blue: Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads. Then the jazz age: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and, later on, Benny Goodman and "Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." Midcentury, things start to rock with Chuck Berry, "Wop-bop-a-loo-bop a-lop bam boom!" the Beatles, Aretha...
...events in the supernatural realm is absolutely ludicrous. Here we are approaching the 21st century, and our folk culture is still stuck in a medieval mind-set, with all its superstitions. Jan. 1, 2000, will be just one more day in the life of Planet Earth. JOSEPH W. ADAMS Johnson City, Tenn...
Think it's too early to tell what history will make of the spectacle in the Senate? Think again. The 1868 impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson gives us all the yardsticks we need...
FAMILY CONNECTIONS ON THE JURY Then: Senator David Patterson, Johnson's son-in-law Now: Senator Barbara Boxer, mother of Hillary's sister...
COLORFUL MEDICAL ALLUSION Then: "The Lord had sent plagues, he had sent more than lice, he had afflicted the country with Andrew Johnson." --Representative Thaddeus Stevens Now: Clinton's actions "will cause a cancer in our society." --Representative Jim Sensenbrenner...