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In the summer I live so close to my neighbor I can hear him sweat... his lawnmower wilts my cereal:
Traditional rural music, especially, has been passed down without the benefit (or burden) of an intellectual framework. Country people who gathered at picnics, frolics and in honky-tonks managed to enjoy nearly anything: jigs, cakewalks, reels, buck dances, waltzes, blues. They had their heroes, but no super-stars. The reputation...
"What has passed returns to nothingness if one gazes back at it," runs one line of the libretto. "Today is spring; tomorrow the flower wilts." Perhaps it was thoughts like these that helped Yun finish Dreams in a Seoul prison cell last year.
There are more serious complaints: despite Tubman's economic gains, a large number of Liberia's 1,000,000 people still eke out all too meager an existence while the heirs of the old elite and government officials live handsomely. The 1969 austerity budget of $61 million, for...
The Executive did have an arm responsible for keeping track of peace probes. It operated under the direction of Averill Harriman, but as the War progressed, it gradually withered into a front toward which Johnson could gesture when his desire for peace was questioned. The story of Harriman's group...