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...Rock was always a music of turbulence, and history, for a while there, caught the beat. Woodstock was a dodge, a growth industry that tie-dyed much that was fierce and righteous in the music into something stuporous and evasive. The seeds of nostalgia were planted in those sodden, trodden New York State fields before the festival was over. Memories were rolled like joints. Smoke...
...view of curriculum is quite a bit narrower than educators feel is essential," Shattuck said. "Bennett's view is that the classics and a few well-trodden works are essential [to a college curriculum], and while they're essential, they're not enough...
Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams was the surprise winner of the 1986 American Book Award for nonfiction. This collection of short pieces about the American Southwest, Alaska, endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures is in the same vein. Much of the ground covered is by now well trodden, though Lopez has a light step. He glides over pre-Columbian history, kicking up bits of ornithology, geology and marine biology. His best entry is about beached whales on the Oregon coast and the peculiar behavior these leviathans caused in the local population. The author is a clear and patient observer whose literary...
While these battles over access are waged, correspondents struggle to fill their notebooks with anything more than rumor or innuendo. They follow a well- trodden path to the contra offices in a sprawling bungalow on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa. The spokesperson is charming but uninformative. On a good day, a journalist might run into Contra Leaders Adolfo Calero or Enrique Bermudez, but they are not always forthcoming...
...Charles to change? Will the townie Anthony Balto be allowed to attend the Big Party? Who will become the new head of the Windermans once the old man is gone? The answers are not as predictable as they appear, nor are the Windermans. Graves aptly demonstrates that the well- trodden ground of John O'Hara and J.P. Marquand can still sustain a surprising amount of plant and animal life...