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DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER JOHN LA MONTAINE? In 1959 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his Piano Concerto, Op. 9, and went on to a career as an unabashed writer of down-to-earth tonal music. Now the composer, 72, has issued several works on the Fredonia Discs label (3947 Fredonia...
Orchard Professor of the History of Landscape John R. Stilgoe, who lectures about the seasonal effects of winter on the environment, says that Cambridge's severe winters have enhanced the city's character and served a useful purpose.
Demographics is another factor. In Paris rising rents are driving the working class to the suburbs -- and long commutes discourage after-work aperitifs. As a result, many cafes have beefed up their menus and make up the lost zinc trade from office workers who no longer go home for lunch...
Westerners often consider Russians shiftless and lazy. While their style of work may be puzzling to outsiders, it has a logic all its own, rooted in the peasant's seasonal cycle of activities, when months of idleness gave way to short but intensive periods of planting and harvest. As novelist...
Nadezhda holds the family purse strings. She spends three to five hours a day scouring the local shops and farmers' market for the best bargains. "In the past, 10 rubles could have bought me 6 lbs. of meat," she says. "Now I can't even buy 2 lbs. for 100...