Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LANCER (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Murdoch lancer (Andrew Duggan), owner of a vast cattle ranch in Northern California, and his two sons fight off land grabbers in this 1870 vintage western. Premiere...
...vogue nowadays, many pop artists have started to simplify their sound, and are discovering the roots of their musical heritage in the process. Some have only returned to the beginnings of hard rock in the 1950s, while others have made the longer journey back to Nashville and country-western music. The Lovin' Spoonful got there first with a song called Nashville Cats. Bob Dylan followed with his famed John Wesley Harding album. And now several groups are on the trail...
SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO (Columbia). Country-western purists are likely to yell "fake" at this album. True, the Byrds don't sound exactly like Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, but they do perform the material with simplicity and in a relaxed, folky manner. Woody Guthrie's socialist hymn to Pretty Boy Floyd gets an authentic bluegrass treatment here, and Blue Canadian Rockies, an old Gene Autry tune, will bring back memories of the Hollywood cowboy astride his horse Champion, galloping through "the golden poppies. . . 'round the banks of Lake Louise." Two Bob Dylan songs, Nothing Was Delivered...
Brinton had completed 43 years of teaching at Harvard when he became Professor Emeritus last July 1. He was a noted authority on Western intellectual history and the pattern of revolution. As a teacher, he was widely known and well-respected...
...practical, sober fanatic dedicated to hard work") ideally equips Americans to play 20th century Romans. When Puritan qualities are combined with the "innate and relentless expansionism" of the frontiersman, it becomes clear that "it was just not in [Americans'] dynamic temper to become the peaceful Swiss of the Western Hemisphere." Yet Americans, De Riencourt insists, have been "fundamentally reluctant" imperialists. They have not really played the game of colonialism, which he defines as an ephemeral grab for pseudo empire. The problem is that history has given them no choice. Though there might once have been another option, this century...