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...wages -but then nobody had much money in those days. You would not believe the transformation we have undergone: enclosed, air-conditioned malls every few blocks, high-rise apartments and complexes, condominiums, housing for the elderly, underprivileged, young and swingy, middle-aged and any category. No more slums and quaint neighborhoods. Blacks hold important jobs. They are heads of agencies, live in exclusive neighborhoods, get elected to judgeships and the legislature. To say that maids and yardmen are vanishing would be trite. About the only thing that has not changed is the weather-still beastly hot in summer and mild...
...designer of the costumes and scenery, Pop Artist Robert Indiana turned out to be the key person in the production. Thomson admired an earlier version that presented Mother as an animated album with quaint figures suggesting tinted photographs. Realist Indiana had other ideas. Incorporating Pop art's hard-edge feeling into the production, he splashed the stage with circus colors of red, gold, green and blue...
Then southward, first for a stop in antebellum Charleston, where Twain insists on renting an electric boat to tour the ricefield bogs; and Savannah, Ga., with its quaint cobblestone streets and a gracious populace that calls outsiders "visitors," not "tourists." In New Orleans they stroll through the somewhat scruffy but genteel French Quarter (prostitutes will stare from their wrought-iron balconies). Again, at Twain's insistence, they pause at a Dixieland jazz joint and later dine aboard one of the Mississippi steamboats...
...something to offer you. The Popular Artist Series at Tanglewood is presenting Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie, Gordon Lightfoot, James Taylor in the next few weeks. Ticket prices are steep--$5.50-$7.50--but what isn't? Allow yourself a little time to wander around nearby Stock-bridge and Lennox, quaint little villages where you can spend a fortune. Some basic familiarity with these places is de rigeur for anyone who wishes to hold his/her head high in Harvard Yard...
Chagnon's findings are anything but quaint notes on a primitive people. For one thing, the Yãnomamõ culture challenges the reigning academic theory that primitive wars are mainly fought over land, water or some other natural resource. What makes the Yãnomamõ anthropologically interesting is that all their wars are waged to capture women or in retaliation for such abductions...