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...expects his musicians to follow him along. Many of the changes are totally spur of the moment, and the band is tight enough to take them in stride. "You hook on to Bruce on that stage and you go wherever he takes you," says Clarence demons. "It's like total surrender to him." A Springsteen set is raucous, poignant, brazen. It is clear that he gets off on the show as much as the audience, which is one reason why a typical gig lasts over two hours. The joy is infectious and self-fulfilling. "This music is forever...
Gambling was universal, and fighting was taken in stride. Preachers fretted about English-inspired "Foppery, Luxury and Recreation." Gerald Carson, a student of American manners, rightly notes that "a prohibitionist in colonial America would have been considered a lunatic." The alcoholic eye-opener was a morning ritual for some upper-class women. In the presence of the bottle, church people overcame sectarian differences. On the Carolina frontier, Episcopalian Charles Woodmason grumbled that "In this Article both Presbyterians and Episcopalians very charitably agree (viz.) That of Getting Drunk...
...secret government documents on U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Britain has no such written constitutional guarantee; governments have in the past had little trouble bullying the press into bland quiescence, and the courts have stood idly by. Jubilant British journalists greeted Lord Widgery's decision as a long stride in the other direction. "It ends the notion that civil servants should be protected in perpetuity with some sort of chastity belt," said Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans. "It was a beautiful decision, a triumph of common sense over bureaucracy...
...ever. Because of Norwegian taxes, a Toyota shipped from Japan costs $9,500, as much as a fully equipped Cadillac in the U.S. Cigarettes are $1.50 a pack, and groceries are double U.S. prices. Don Greenlee, 47, a Texan production superintendent for Phillips at Ekofisk, takes the prices in stride. Says he: "It costs more to live here, but there are not as many things to spend your money on. Financially, we probably make out a bit better...
...gatherings, he would stand alone talking silently to himself, moving his lips and smiling-although, said a friend, if someone interrupted his reverie, "he immediately began a harangue." As a classroom lecturer, he would stutter and stammer for at least a quarter of an hour before hitting his oratorical stride. Contemporaries loved to talk about the night that he got out of bed absorbed in some theory and wandered 15 miles in his dressing gown before thinking to wonder where he was. Altogether, Adam Smith was scarcely the man to whom an ambitious moneymaker would turn for guidance...