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...from its perch above the Ohio River. "It's really two cities," says Dorothy Weil, 78, whose husband chaired the local Democratic Party two decades ago, "the East and the West." Culturally and politically, the West Side closely resembles its Kentucky neighbors and is dotted with working-class Catholic towns where people still place one another by asking which parochial high school they attended. Across town is the East Side, an affluent web of hillside communities that house executives from Macy's, Procter & Gamble and the seven other FORTUNE 500 companies that are based in Cincinnati...
...miles (19.3 km) and several tax brackets away is Indian Hill, an East Side suburb that is home to those fiscally conservative swing voters the Obama campaign would like to win over. A drive around Indian Hill's winding country lanes leaves a visitor thinking it's less a town than a state park with sprawling manors. Bush beat John Kerry here by better than 3 to 1, and McCain and Palin have each dropped by in the past few months to raise money. But just a few weeks before the 2008 election, the yard signs anchored...
Wait. It gets worse. Hello, Dolly is one of many versions of The Matchmaker, a play by Thornton Wilder, author of Our Town and other treacly warhorses of the American theater. Over the years, millions of American children have had to sit through what once was viewed as sentimental propaganda and therefore good for them. Many impressionable young people have even been forced to say the line about spreading money around in student productions of The Matchmaker, taking innocent pleasure in the joke about manure while their little minds were being polluted with redistributionist propaganda. While I remember Wilder...
...concentrates on Boulanger’s effect on America and especially the impact she made in Cambridge and Boston. “Nadia Boulanger’s influence reached across America,” Craft says. “As composer Virgil Thompson said, ‘Every small town in America has two things in common: a five and dime, and a student of Nadia Boulanger.’” The exhibit also includes correspondences between Boulanger and some of her students. Most of the pieces in the exhibit are from Harvard’s own collection...
...brightest of the urban music scene, from his beginnings playing piano on Lauryn Hill’s “Everything is Everything,” to his signing with Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label in 2003, to the multiple collabos that followed with that Chi-town superstar. His work with artists like Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, and Will.I.Am shape a hip-hop resume that few others can touch, but his solo efforts have been decidedly less exciting than the tracks on which he plays the supporting role. Legend tends to come across as a baby-faced...