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Just a year before L.B.J.'s advent in Appalachia, Harry Caudill, a lawyer from the University of Kentucky who is descended from the earliest settlers of the Cumberland Plateau, wrote a small classic, Night Comes to the Cumberlands. The book detailed with angry eloquence the paradox of a people who had grown "shockingly poor" in a land stuffed with "valuable natural resources." In The Watches of the Night, an equally indignant, equally effective broadside, Caudill updates that gloomy report. Appalachia in the '60s, he suggests, was L.B.J.'s and America's domestic Viet Nam: a confrontation...
George and Jerry Ford both came in with a bang in the autumn of 1974. In Washington, with the advent of a new president, our long national nightmare seemed over; and in Cambridge, the Crimson soccer team made it to the NCAA playoffs under a new coach. Two years later, both new guys are committing gaffes and floundering in their respective standings...
...quickie shops, whose advent has been successfully forestalled in Harvard Square--including Dunkin' Donuts, which was denied permission to open a branch in Harvard Square two years ago--flourish in Central Square. By and large, the owners of the more marginal junk-food shops have remained out of Smith's organization. And Lane, whose tenant group is avowedly committed to bringing in still more junk food operations, pleads, "Get us a Jewish bakery, please...
...take the blame. For if there is one serpent most easily discernible in the Garden of Eden togetherness that Americans hope for from tennis, it is the American husband. Until the advent of Women's Liberation, when men began to be accused of a certain piggish dominance again, a sociologist's easy generalization about the American middle-class husband was that he had lost his domestic clout. It is hardly more than a decade, in fact, since wits began describing the commuting husband as a "yard man with sex privileges." Now it appears that whatever happened...
...October 1917 that Stokowski made his first recordings with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Those were the days when the musicians gathered in front of a big acoustic horn and played into it. With the advent of electrical recording less than a decade later, Stokowski and the Philadelphia began a series that remains a landmark in quality recording. Then, as now, the Stokowski style is unmistakable-the lush violins, the burnished double basses, the biting brass, the luxuriance of the total sound...