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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GETZ/GILBERTO (Verve) is the still-selling smash hit in which the Brazilian father of bossa nova, Singer Joao Gilberto, was upstaged by his softspoken, hitherto unknown wife Astrud singing The Girl from Ipanema. The big bestseller sprouted a number of smaller bestsellers, a kind of family tree of albums...
British lawyers can recall only one previous case of an anxious litigant's insuring a pondering judge (in 1959, for $14,000); the idea is apparently unknown in the U.S., where from time to time judges have died in mid-trial and left cases in shambles. In a famous 1944 sedition trial of pro-Nazi sympathizers, for example, the chief judge died after six months' testimony, a mistrial was declared, and the 30-odd defendants were never retried...
...ring the Kaili can't continue their sacrifices. Their victims, by the way, all beautiful young girls, are painted bright red before they're slaughtered. This crazy scientist thinks he can rule the world with the ring, which like Superman's costume, is made of an indestructable material entirely unknown to man. The tiger is just there for laughs. But nothing can shake our boys, and we know from the first frame that their version of the British way of life will triumph...
Many went west. Author Boorstin styles them the "Transients," finds in the story of their trundling, urgent progress the paradigm and impulse for much of later American life. Because they explored an unknown world, mutual assistance was a necessity. Law was invented as needed, government sprang up from the grass roots of democracy, and leadership fell to the organizer, whose powers of persuasion could cajole conflicting interests into cooperation. Because land went to the first man who settled it, the Transients were always in a hurry, and the nation committed itself with almost religious fervor to a technology of haste...
...blocks from Charles Street or down two blocks from Harvard Square. And women on the corner, winos in the doorways, cops with callous faces and hardened eyes, do not summon up for me, as they do for some poetical white spirits, any vast romantic phantasies of luscious and previously unknown satisfactions...