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Allman Brothers. 20,000 tickets. I four hours. And half the band is dead. I never even saw an ad, for Chrissake, and I'm still not sure whether this thing is for real or not. The Brothers are starting a metamorphosis into the kind of cult phenomenon the Dead have been for so long. Before this tour started, there were even rumors that the Dead and the Allmans would play a string of nine hour marathons across America. I think it's all too bad, because I genuinely love the Allman Brothers. I once got close enough to Dicky...
...tasks of a body man could be menial—lugging around equipment, taking business cards and snapping photos—but they gave him nearly unlimited access to a growing phenomenon in American politics...
Professor Frank R. Arnold of the Utah Agricultural College has at last revealed, or helped to reveal, a mysterious, not to say enigmatic phenomenon in the light of truth. Writing in the current Scribner's on "The Mating Season of Co-Education" he unintentionally explains just why the average importation to Harvard from the fields of co-education is so much at a loss in Cambridge...
...last Boston performance of "The Big Parade" takes place tonight, and its departure throws into more salient relief one of the most interesting evidences of what is without doubt a sociological phenomenon of no small significance. That attitude of the American public toward the idea of war which is revealed by the success of such a film is one of the most auspicious auguries of the future meanings of the word peace...
It’s little wonder, then, that spring fever has become a very real phenomenon on campus, one which belies the residual chill in the April air. Much more than just a convenient way of explaining away lapses in concentration, this dizzying feeling of ferment and change seems a very real and very obvious response to what is a most disorientating time of year...