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...Memories of a class divided are what stand out in the minds of many younger '49ers today. Going to school with older and worldlier men, they say, made their experience at Harvard unique...
...Human Wheels, his 12th album, Mellencamp's social conscience remains as keen as ever, but his small-town twang has evolved into a lusher, worldlier sound. The album, like the diary of a country boy who went to the big city and returned tougher and wiser, is tempered by the neon images and jukebox sounds of urban America, melding straight-ahead electric-guitar licks with the staccato rhythms of the modern melting...
...Human Wheels, his 12th album, Mellencamp's social conscience remains as keen as ever, but his small-town twang has evolved into a lusher, worldlier sound. The album, like the diary of a Hoosier who went to the big city and returned tougher and wiser, is tempered by the neon images and jukebox sounds of urban America, melding straight-ahead electric-guitar licks with the staccato rhythms of the modern melting...
...plus a generous flow of hate mail), and a Justice can retire on full pay at 65. But the perquisites stop there. Except for Warren's Government Cadillac, no Justice gets a free car, house, servants or entertainment allowance; only Warren gets security protection. For novices used to worldlier ways, the monastic life is often a harsh surprise. Justice Arthur Goldberg, formerly the fire-chief U.S. Labor Secretary, is still restless. "The Secretary's phone never stops ringing," muses Goldberg. "The Justice's phone never rings-even his best friends won't call...
...peripatetic humanist. Desiderius Erasmus, who could "scarce forbear" to pray to "St. Socrates" and expressed in satire what many of his contemporaries mutely felt about the late-Renaissance church. Author Durant delightedly quotes from an Erasmus dialogue written on the death in 1513 of Julius II, one of the worldlier Popes, who is presented as seeking admission to heaven from St. Peter...