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What conditions have fostered the radical transformation from the libertarian tradition of Aneurin Bevan to the hot-eyed radicalism of Benn and Scargill? Some believe that Britain's freewheeling, free-spending years under a succession of Labor governments raised illusory expectations for the young. Others think the party became...
An ever popular myth is that there once was, and might be again, a nice, neat division of powers and functions among federal, state and local governments. This wistful notion- known in political science circles as the "layer-cake absolute"- has never existed in reality but can be tracked back...
There were wistful moments too. Looking around the Biltmore ballroom, Reagan recalled dining there in 1937 and being introduced to the woman who arranged his first screen test. "It all began here," he said. The next morning, preparing to board Air Force One for the flight to Washington, Reagan and...
DIED. Alec Wilder, 73, idiosyncratic composer who was equally adept at wistful popular songs (It's So Peaceful in the Country, I'll Be Around, While We're Young) and unfashionably melodic orchestral and chamber works, and whose 1972 book, American Popular Song, showed him to be...
Bunky produced all the Sheppards' songs. They had two top lead singers. Murrie Eskridge took the harder-driving numbers and Millard ("Mill") Edwards handled the more wistful songs, making Island of Love come within cutting distance of some of the Drifters' best material. Unlike the long-lived Drifters...