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...says Neal Young, "makes no difference with music." This is made abundantly clear on his new album, Mirror Ball. Young's association with the youthful alt-rock megaband Pearl Jam has rejuvenated the 49-year-old rocker. Pearl Jam serves as an extraordinary backup band on the new album. Rather than a cheap marketing gimmick, the pairing is a natural coming together of rockers with a shared commitment and passion, saysTIME critic Christopher John Farley. This collection of thoughtful, involving songs is "one of the most consistently rewarding works of Young's long rewarding career." Previous TIME Daily Campaign...
Gardens have always served as a handy mirror of American tastes and obsessions. For the Puritans a voluptuous flower bed was a sentimental waste or, worse, an attempt to improve on nature's creation. After Pearl Harbor, when America already grew enough food to feed half the world, 20 million people planted Victory gardens in 1943 in, among other places, a Portland, Oregon, zoo and a Chicago racetrack. Such mass gardening was supposed to help prevent juvenile delinquency, improve the national health and, in the process, "help beet the enemy." Ever since, Americans have found plenty of high moral fiber...
Following the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1942, then Harvard President James Bryant Conant '13 pledged the entire University's resources to a speedy Allied victory...
...Then came Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941," reads the Fiftieth Reunion Book. "The next day a mass meeting was held in Agassiz House. [Radcliffe's President Ada Louise Comstock advised, it is our] `immediate duty to continue our college work in order to prepare ourselves for the organization of a peaceful world...
...class of 1945 is your grandmother's age. We tested only three months of prewar college life: Pearl Harbor and V-E Day bracketed our years here. The wartime changes began to transform the College...