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...democratic direction, as the parliament became more representative, powerful, and willing to confront the Kaiser. The most “brutally repressive” political regime of that time—Czarist Russia—was admittedly harsh, yet in over one hundred years it killed less than four thousand people...
...very poor, no shoes, no clothes—I left the old country with short pants with a thousand patches,” he says. His first—and lasting—impression of Harvard and the people that populate the Square...
...Pull Up the People,” the album’s first proper track, makes mincemeat of Ali’s famed boxing boast, as butterfly-crushing bass hits gently buzz underneath the sugary stings of a thousand sonic bees. On “Bingo,” steel drums and swaying low end are joined during the chorus by gnashing, squelching keys that make you really want to “hit a six,” whatever that means...
...Baroque, the waning age of myth and mysticism; Frederick was a son of the Enlightenment, the dawning epoch of empiricism and reason. Their musical duel took place at "the tipping point between ancient and modern culture," writes Gaines, the moment at which "the intuitions, attitudes, and ideas of a thousand years were being exchanged for principles and habits of thought that are still evolving and in question three centuries later...
...which are trying to cash in on the ever burgeoning religious market. Last summer she was signed by Center Street, a new imprint of Time Warner Book Group (like TIME, a division of Time Inc.), which the company says will release "wholesome" books targeted at "America's heartland." A Thousand Tomorrows, her first book for her new publishers, is due out next month...