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What really shook me was her opening line. What was she thinking? Was it honestly her expectation that I preserve my junior college ignorance and naivete into my 30s and 40s? And then was I to morph, with marriage and motherhood, suddenly and traumatically into final adulthood? The realization was breathtakingly frightening...
...blamed "family history," her father, her grandfather. An old aunt, dying, said, forget that, you're a drunk. The author went through detox, then months in which her shaking hands shook less. And finally--family history, of course--learned to fly-fish properly. Taught, she insists, by a vision, possibly supernatural, of a naked man, fly rod in hand, drifting down a river on a raft. Sure. Anyhow, she is now able to cast a Royal Coachman so that the fly walks on water, "and the circle of fish shatters like beads in a kaleidoscope, bathing me in light...
...were willing to put their lives and bodies on the line at a time when both white political leaders like John Kennedy and established civil rights groups like the N.A.A.C.P. urged caution and so-called moderation. The young activists were simply unwilling to wait or compromise. Their impatient fearlessness shook America to its roots and changed the face of the nation...
CHARLIE PARKER (1920-1955) With startling impact, the musical quantum leap known as Bebop shook the jazz world in the mid-1940s. Its prime energy source was sax man Parker. Unhinging improvisation from song melody, jumping into dissonances and spinning out complex lines, Parker created the sound that dominated postwar jazz. His 1953 recording Jazz at Massey Hall catches this revolutionary in full flight...
...second great upheaval was the 1960s. Again, a rupture opened with the past; received standards and values were under siege, this time in the ferment of civil rights, the sexual revolution and Vietnam. In the arts the rumbling had started in the '50s, when Elvis Presley got everybody all shook up, when Jack Kerouac took to the road and Allen Ginsberg began to howl. In 1969, in a muddy field in New York's Catskill Mountains, more than 400,000 of their spiritual heirs gathered at the Woodstock Festival to stake their claim as a new generation...