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...Arthur Penn was already making a film of The Miracle Worker (which is, by the way, scrupulously to be avoided) Francois Truffaut abandoned the idea of adapting the original stage play and began looking for a similar property. He found one much better in the accounts of an early nineteenth century scientist, Dr. Itard, who tried to bring a boy living wild in the woods of Southern France back to civilization...
Three makeshift fours of Harvard heavyweights finished ninth, thirteenth, and nineteenth in their event, and Kirkland House's entry in the junior eight competition wound up twenty-third...
...author has more on her mind, however, than jollying readers with not-so-mock rock lyrics. A reference is made to a time when "the Army shelled Bedford-Stuyvesant . . . when the president has announced his policy of 'limited disciplinary retaliation' for uprisings." Shawn glooms about "the Nineteenth Year of Service" that hangs over his future. This scheme means 18 months in uniform for every 19-year-old, male and female. The Nineteenth Year was sold to the public as a liberal measure, because young pacifists were given a chance to serve in the pollution-control corps instead...
...revolution is reforming, despite the Nineteenth Year. Other combatants are introduced. Corey dreams of striding into school "cool and easy some morning with the rifle on his back like a guerrilla fighter. Line up the faculty. Torture the principal to learn where they keep the anxiety gases and the chemicals they put in the soup to make the kids stupid and passive." Corey sells pot, "for the money and the style and to buck the system." He is part Indian. He seizes his high school, holds it for four days, then escapes and forms a tribe of revolutionists who think...
...roots of country music can be traced to the minstrel shows that toured the South in the late nineteenth century. Tony Russell in his book Black White, and Blues found most of the groups were make up of blackened-faced white singers who played "coon ballads," songs most musicographers have followed back to ante-bellum field ballads. The premier groups of the time, The Christry Minstrels and the North Carolina Ramblers, played for both black and white audiences. To set themselves apart from common medicine shows and folk singers, a Christy Minstrel's advertisement read: "Anything appertaining to vulgarity...