Word: peers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...band, along with the traditional complement of bass, rhythm guitar and drums, also includes a sax and an accordion, so its sound sometimes takes on Tex-Mex overtones, or even a certain savor from Cajun territory. Ely's sources are scrupulously eclectic. Perhaps his nearest spiritual peer is that old renegade Jerry Lee Lewis. Live Shots contains one old tune, Fingernails, that may once have been intended as a send-up of Jerry...
...ended. Who needs to read about imaginary rocket ships and interplanetary voyages when he can read about the real thing? The age of psychological and mythological science fiction, however, is definitely under way. Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos novels are notable for using a futuristic setting to peer into man's past and speculate on his future. If Lessing is the Athena of the genre, Frank Herbert is its Homer...
...SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD President of the United States has repeatedly promised that he will take care of his peer group. From his State of the Union address in January to the recent announcement of a "White House Conference on Aging," he has assured all that his vaunted "safety net" of social services would be more than adequate to catch any aged Americans falling toward uncertain futures. But these gestures represent a consistently misleading sympathy for the elderly--a fact that will become painfully evident when President Reagan's economic package takes effect...
Britain as a whole was swept up in a wave of shock and recrimination. In the House of Commons, Home Secretary William Whitelaw reported on a personal visit to Brixton, conducted during a lull in the rioting, and announced that a respected and nonpartisan peer, former Jurist Lord Scarman, would investigate the causes of the violence. Firebrand M.P. Enoch Powell, a Tory turned Ulster Unionist and a longtime opponent of nonwhite immigration to Britain, warned that "you have seen nothing yet." Five M.P.s demanded "a vigorous policy" of subsidized repatriation of nonwhite immigrants. The ruckus spread as far away...
...holding their sons back. "I've never advised anyone to do it," Bohanon says. "A kid sees only the short run and says, 'Hey, it'll get me a scholarship.' But I worry about the damage that could be done to his self-image and peer relationships. Anybody who coaches football to get kids scholarships is in the wrong business. You coach to help kids, and holding back doesn't help kids...