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...members of the Boston Study Group have taken an important step towards changing the terms of our national debate. With The Price of Defense, they have spoken with clarity and boldness challenging an entrenched and dangerous view of the world. Their primer for peace won't be found on the bookcase that may crush us all someday...
Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll, a time capsule of peak moments and joyous traditions, is also a first-rate primer of rock history. Malcolm Leo and Andrew Solt, who produced, directed and co-wrote the show, pay particular attention to getting the roots-in country and rhythm and blues-right. Before they talk about Buddy Holly, they show Hank Williams. Elvis storms on only after due notice has been paid to Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Muddy Waters and Ray Charles. To underscore the point, and to illustrate how threatening this music once seemed, Leo and Solt include some...
...concede, are in sales. "Sales like ours don't just happen," he snaps. "We make them happen! And I sell the sizzle!" How he does this could serve neatly as a crash course in the fine points, and pressure points, of selling records. Two basics from the Coury primer: "Nobody gets rich on singles: singles advertise an album. Most important: get your records on the radio...
Although Powell will go on to teach eight four-hour sessions from a Kaplan-prepared primer, tonight he is playing Ed McMahon. He is warming up the audience, setting the stage, we are told, for the main event--a papal blessing from the guru of the educational test-preparation business...
...YEARS AGO, the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, a group of ten women from the Boston area, published Our Bodies, Ourselves, a virtual primer of feminism. Feminism, in the authors' minds, meant looking at men and women as equals and the traditionally "feminine" values--generosity, compassion, love--as important. Buoyed by the success of Bodies, the same group turned this feminist perspective on the business of child rearing; the felicitous result is Ourselves and Our Children...