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...song's stunning coda, Lennon set to music a repeated plea that was primal and universal. "Mama don't go... Daddy come home." His howls of anguish - unheard-of in popular music - were truth at 33 revolutions per minute...
Vacationing by houseboat was largely unheard of 30 years ago. But in the past decade, houseboat rentals have surged to the point where reservations are often booked a year in advance. At our destination of Lake Powell--a serpentine waterway straddling Arizona and Utah--fewer than two dozen houseboats were available for rent 30 years ago; today there are 400. One reason for their popularity is that houseboating offers a novel way to see some of the most spectacular scenery in the country. Plus, houseboats offer family and friends an opportunity to be under way while under one roof...
...meet was the men's season opener against Army and Columbia, and Cole had won the event by an almost unheard-of 30 seconds. Sophomore teammate John Persinger came in second...
Conspiracy theories about last week's vote are flying, but I'm skeptical. A plot of that scope would require levels of cunning and competence unheard of in Florida politics. If the national election was being stolen, it was probably by accident. The target more likely was some county-commission runoff or maybe a seat on the port authority. That the presidential nominees happened to appear on the same ballot was merely rotten luck...
...other conductor Schuller acknowledges is Dmitri Mitropoulos, who was the music director of the New York Philharmonic at the time. "Mitropoulos really put me on the map when he conducted two pieces of mine in a season, which was unheard of. Next thing I know, I'm getting congratulatory letters from the leading American composers of the day, like Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland. I was completely unknown at the time...