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Wherever aims for a purer, more stripped-down and ethereal sound than the frantic Silver Apples of the Moon or rock-driven Good Looking Blues. Laika do seem to stay in fairly fixed musical orbit throughout, and tracks that don’t distinguish themselves in some way (as with the quicker tempo and diverse instrumentation of “Falling Down”, or the syncopated rhythms of “Dirty Bird”) are lost in the ample space. Regardless, floating through the cosmos with Laika is a great choice for anyone searching for vocal, laid-back...
...liked, rather than resented, was due in part to another organizational trait: his eye for and generosity to new talent. He helped bring to the Times a stunning array of young journalists: Russell Baker, Tom Wicker, David Halberstam, Max Frankel and Anthony Lewis. His proteges, Stacks says, retained a purer affection for him than did his sons, for whom his work left less time...
...high school yearbook wrote: “We have chosen as the theme of this yearbook, The Adventures of Don Quixote, a novel built around a man whose life was not unlike ours. Much dissatisfied, he too dedicated himself to finding a better world of higher ideals and purer men, although he was believed a senile lunatic...
Today, no high school senior could write of his classmates’ dedication “to finding a better world of higher ideals and purer men” without dissolving into giggles. We may be—and in many instances are—as “much dissatisfied” with our world as the starry-eyed class of ’69 was with theirs. We face war, a faltering economy and shrinking civil liberties. But our defense is not to dedicate ourselves to finding a better world—because our defense is cynicism, which...
...testing, and wept in "unbearable bitterness, shame and humiliation" when his urgings to the leaders of the country he had helped to make a superpower were rebuffed. By the 1960s, Sakharov was both an oft-decorated Hero of the Soviet Union and an increasingly astute figure politically, moving "toward purer science and toward the highly impure world of social activism." He became an outspoken critic of repression, an intervener on behalf of dissidents and a force within the nascent Soviet human- rights movement. Years were marked by highs and lows: in 1968, Sakharov was barred from all military research...