Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Each of the two announced CCA candidates for mayor-Councillors Thomas Coates and Thomas H. D. Mahoney-voted for himself. Two other CCA councillors-Barbara Ackermann and Robert P. Moncnieff-voted for Coates on one ballot and Mahoney on the next, while CCA councillor Edward A. Crane '35 voted "present" throughout the balloting...
...However labeled, it is a turning back toward easy-rhythmed blues, folk songs, and the twangy, lonely lamentations known as country music. Country rock is also a symptom of a general cultural reaction to the most unsettling decade the U.S. has yet endured. The yen to escape the corrupt present by returning to the virtuous past ?real or imagined?has haunted Americans, never more' so than today. A nostalgic country twang resounds all up and down the pop charts. Glen Campbell and Johnny Cash, two singers once chained to the old country circuit, are now national figures with coast...
...thoughtful young have led the way in declaring disenchantment with the present. But for the perceptive and rebellious, no slickly packaged nostalgia will provide escape or inspiration. Nor are they to be taken into the near camp of Grand Ole Opry. In yearning for an irony-proof vision of a better, gentler life and more enduring values, the young have been turning for years toward solace as various as Zen and hippie communes. In pop music they are now turning toward The Band. In part, this is because The Band's words and music suggest that The Band itself...
Efforts to find a practical way to add odors to advertisements have been going on for years. Scented ink was tried in newspapers in the '50s, but the fragrance dissipated too rapidly. The present process is supplied by only two companies, National Cash Register and Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing, and the competition between them has spread from the marketplace to the courts. NCR, which claims that it developed the micro method first, has filed a patent-infringement suit against 3M. Minnesota Mining extracts a product's aromatic oils to duplicate the product's scent. The essences are enclosed...
...Present at the Creation, Acheson...