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...such diverse aspects of Americana as the transcend-entalists and the first and second world wars. He admired Emerson and once wrote that he "plunges to all roots at once." And it seems like maybe a profile of Ives could do the same thing, only the roots may be nearer the surface and the plunge could hurt if the profile is well done. Ch. 2, 8 p.m., 1 1/2 hours...
...first trials. Yet even in that Arcadia there were dark corners. To think of how many died in childbirth or lived sickly lives, to think of diseases wrongly diagnosed or wrongly treated, is to recognize the importance of health in judging the well-being of a people. The nearer one gets to today the better health care gets...
...rave clippings, Dern is poised to become a star. Trouble is, he has been in that position for a couple of years, ever since he scored a personal hit as the bellicose Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. But the brass ring has never seemed to get any nearer. His friend Jack Nicholson comforted him by declaring publicly that Dern is his only real rival. Even Alfred Hitchcock is compassionate. Dern recently wound up his role as the ne'er-do-well anti-hero in the master's Family Plot. Hitchcock promised: "You're going...
Down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue one morning last week, a group of young choirboys marched on their way to a picnic, hopping gaily and singing Nearer, My God, to Thee. The rest of the city was not so blithe. In the third day of a wildcat sanitation workers' strike, mounds of garbage were rising on the sidewalks, rotting in the July heat. At night, especially in the slums of the South Bronx and Harlem, trash fires flickered and fumed in the streets like smudge pots-and, of course, there were not enough firemen to cope. "Fun City? Fear...
...sang Nearer, My God, to Thee, and she carried the flag in her school when it paid tribute to the fallen William McKinley. The robust Teddy Roosevelt was part of her wedding, so to speak. At least he was in the White House. Ross did Wilson's bidding. One day in 1917 he harnessed up his team and climbed in the wagon and drove through the flooded Nodaway River to sign up for World War I conscription. They needed him more on the farm, it turned...