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But before you assume that this is a band that takes itself too seriously, consider the infectious “Halfway Home,” the wisely-chosen album opener. An ominous drum rhythm reminiscent of Joy Division is juxtaposed with carefree doo-wops, and the effect resonates in such...
classic Beatle tunes, Phil Spector doo-wops, Mexican rancheros and Frank
Now a younger generation of liberals (like his son-in-law Michael "Meathead" Stivic) was upsetting all that. Their antiwar stance was, in his eyes, an insult to his Greatest Generation experience; their sexual openness shocked his values; and - most shocking to him and to viewers - their emphasis on civil...
Robert McCormick (1880-1955), owner of the Chicago Tribune, cultivated presidential enemies the way other men do orchids, winning Franklin Roosevelt's special hatred for publishing, on the eve of World War II, secret War Department plans that put the lie to F.D.R.'s professed neutrality. McCormick traveled the world...
Would you advocate calling the Afro-American Studies department the Colored Studies department? You wouldn't. So why must all my first-year women friends be freshmen? They aren't asking for sex changes in addition to an education. The use of the word freshman harkens back to the days...