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...increased, forcing some tribes into grasslands. At the same time, Indians realized the horse offered the speed needed to hunt buffalo extensively. Not until then did any Plains tribes begin to prosper, let alone thrive. Only then did the buffalo hunt, made feasible by the horse, become the tribes' mainstay. Only then did the cultures undergo rapid adaptation and change. As warring and raiding became increasingly important, horses, wives and scalps signified wealth and success. The stereotypical Plains Indians came into being...
...College Fund but all of the University's half-dozen "mini-drives" as well, excepting the campaigns for the Busch-Reisinger Museum and the Villa I Tatti, Harvard's center for Renaissance studies in Florence, neither of which appeal to traditional Harvard contributors. The mini-drives" were the mainstay of University capital fundraising throughout the '70s and effectively focused donors' attentions on specific problems--but the College's basic needs did not receive their "due attention," Reardon says...
...suggest phasing out benefits paid to spouses who "do not work" because such payments are expensive and "discriminate against working women." I'd like to know what a wife who works for years at hard labor-cooking, cleaning, doing the laundry, being nurse, adviser, chauffeur and mainstay of a home-does if she does not work. I would say that this kind of working woman deserves all she gets from her husband's share of Social Security...
...wilds of South America where he decrees German to be French and Argentina to be imperial Spain. A Huxleian world in which sexual indulgence has resulted in a "genitocracy" is suddenly cooled off by Nosex, a drug that turns lovemaking into drudgery. Sex as a recreation and mainstay of the economy is replaced by eating, with its own pornography and taboos. People who eat fruit while kneeling, for example, are branded perverts...
There really isn't a weak song on the rest of Side 1, either. "Messin' With the Kid" features some fine guitar work by Murphy and especially Steve Cropper, the legendary Memphis session man, producer, and mainstay of Booker T. and the MGs. Belushi smooths out his vocal delivery a bit in "Almost," and Tom Scott of the L.A. Express handles the sax break as the rest of the horn section punches away. Next comes Aykroyd's only solo number, a wonderfully obscure bit of nonsensical babbling called "Rubber Biscuit" which is, believe it or not, quite faithful...