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...colonies, bringing their whisky-making tools and techniques with them. By 1750, moonshine was a necessity of life on the frontier, and brewing corn whisky was a major industry. From fusty books and firsthand interviews with oldtimers, with many facts and much affection, Joseph Dabney has put together a splendid and often hilarious history...
...wheedled, wheeled and dealed. Last week, that atmosphere temporarily returned. Caught in a political crisis and under orders from President Giovanni Leone to resolve it rather than resign, representatives of the parties in Premier Mariano Rumor's ruling center-left coalition gathered in the Villa Madama's splendid isolation for a two-day summit. Medicis and Borgias would have enjoyed the infighting and cross-dealing...
...Appalachian Spring (original version, Columbia Chamber Orchestra, the composer conducting; Columbia, $5.98); Copland: Sonata for Violin and Piano, Duo for Flute and Piano, Nonet for Strings (Columbia, $5.98). Partnering Violinist Isaac Stern in the Sonata (1943), or the late Elaine Shaffer in the Duo (1971), Copland proves himself a splendid interpreter of two of his most wistfully introspective chamber works...
...River? Where is the root of the city man's bloody compulsion to prowl the Big Woods and kill the beasts that live there? It is uncertain whether the source of that compulsion is the nature of man or the nature of boy, but it is explored with splendid eccentricity in this energetic first novel by Robert F. Jones, a senior writer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...
...essayists checked out the rocking and stomping and evoked Nuremberg, the Apocalypse, ancient Rome, the coming of a new decadence, or any second-degree calamity that seemed especially pressing that week. The Stones rolled along with it all in typical fashion, a little taunting, a little sardonic, wholly splendid showmen...