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- 1021: Rock Music
- ... drugs and free-association poetry"("Rock Music", Groliers, p.1). Groups like The Beach Boys, Crew Cuts and The Everly Brothers were replaced by more imaginative, non-descriptive names groups like The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and Holding Company. The Who, the most famous of these groups, were originally from England and were renowned because of their bizarre stage performances, they would destroy their instruments after their performance finished. The ... metal bands were greatly pushed by videos, but most helped were the popular performers like Michael Jackson, Prince, and Boy George. The influence of British bands of punk, disco, reggae and pop rock was still big in the U.S. Rock scene. At the same time, there was a sense of nostalgia to return to the older pre rock music, like rhythm and blues, which was suggested and played by Elvis ...
- 1022: Rock Music
- ... drugs and free-association poetry" ("Rock Music", Groliers, p.1). Groups like The Beach Boys, Crew Cuts and The Everly Brothers were replaced by more imaginative, non-descriptive names groups like The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and Holding Company. The Who, the most famous of these groups, were originally from England and were reknowned because of their bizarre stage performances, they would destroy their instruments after their performance finished. The ... metal bands were greatly pushed by videos, but most helped were the popular performers like Michael Jackson, Prince and Boy George. The influence of British bands of punk, disco, reggae and pop-rock was still big in the U.S. Rock scene. At the same time, there of nostalgia to return to the older pre rock music, like rhythm and blues, which was suggested by played by Elvis Costello. By the ...
- 1023: Brave New World Compared To 1984
- ... to shrink away from intense emotion, engage in casual sex, and take their pacifying Soma. In 1984, a first-person book partly narrated by the main character's internal dialogue, the great party leader is "Big Brother," a fictional character who is somewhat more imposing than "Ford," of Huxley's book, named after the industrialist Henry Ford (Astrachan). The main character Winston fears Big Brother and is much more aware of his situation than any of the characters in A Brave New World who are constantly pacified by soma. In A Brave New World history is ignored completely whereas ...
- 1024: Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
- ... new dance was a war dance. They called for army protection. Army was called in to try to curbed this new religion before it could start a war. The Sioux band tougher led by Little Big Foot. They were heading to Pine RidgeReservation in South Dakota, when the army stopped them and held them at gun pointovernight. Big Foot s group contained about 300 people two-thirds of them were women and children. While the soldiers numbered around 500 and were armed with automatic weapons. The next morning when the army began to ...
- 1025: Canadian Music Artists and Their Impact
- ... the Year" for her outstanding music career. Her classical training and strong songwriting skills have distinguished Sarah as one of Canada's best known singer/songwriters. Though The Tragically Hip have yet to have their big breakthrough in the United States they certainly have a well known name in Canada. In 1990, The Tragically Hip won a Juno for the most promising group. Almost a decade later the Kingston-based band's recent album just went quadruple-platinum (4,000,000 sold) in Canada. The Hip was asked, if they would be satisfied with all their Canadian accomplishments, if they never hit it big in the U.S. They responded by saying: Each time we put out a record or tour our audience has continued to grow. To us, that's being successful. Stardom and celebrity have little to ...
- 1026: A Touch Of Jazz
- ... and the blues, ragtime and the stomp were soon established. From then on the story of jazz has been one of rapid change. The original "New Orleans" style started to change as soon as another big movement of Negroes to the cities of the north, such as Chicago and New York, began in the 1920's. Musical standards improved and the Stomps and Blues were played with more style and precision by the "Dixieland" bands. New styles emerged, such as the piano and Boogie Woogie. Jazz began to find a wider audience, thanks to the radio and phonograph. In the 1930's and 1940's, big bands, composed mainly of white musicians, played a commercialized type of jazz called Swing, which became the most popular kind of dance music on both sides of the Atlantic. But in the late 1940's ...
- 1027: Bureacracy In Japan
- ... more emphasis on the politicians, especially among the LDP members. In the private sector, the LDP provided special benefits in return for consistent political support. For example, there was extensive reemployment of senior bureaucrats in big business and politics after their retirement. These people are called the amakudari ("decent from heaven"). They deepened the communication between the government and the private sector, giving the private sector a way to manipulate the ... Usually the Japanese public seemed willing to tolerate the scale access by their politicians, so long as there was no evidence of corruption in their meritocratic bureaucracy. Although the LDP had large support from the big business and bureaucratic institutions, these were also the same kind of institutions where the LDP fell victim to many scandalous affairs. There were two major affairs that affected their status and reputation. One was the ...
- 1028: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... any place he feels comfortable. It's easy to understand that he feels misplaced in the society he lives in when he says: "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, nobody's around, nobody big I mean, except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff, I mean ...
- 1029: Barn Burning
- ... and presented to the family, who must now clean it. Abner, instead of getting his wife, or his sons to clean the rug, (not to mention himself as well) instructs his two daughters, described as big, lethargic and bovine, to take care of the task. The rational behind this is, Abner knows that the two daughters will more than likely not do a proper job of washing the rug. Hes ... land owners house. He knows now what he must do. He must warn them of what his father and older brother and about to do. Continually on the run, Sarty warns the people in the big white house and takes off down the road. Sarty soon hears a number of shots, which he assumes to be his father and brother being shot by the landlord who has caught them in the ...
- 1030: McCormick Place
- ... money would be staying in Cook County, because downstate county agricultural fairs were getting comparable benefits for several decades (Tagge). By 1953, it became apparent that the convention buildings in Burnham Park were no longer big enough to host the size of events that Chicago wanted to host. The owners of the Burnham Park buildings knew their buildings were inadequate, but they didn't want a new building to be built ... Condit, Carl W. Chicago 1930-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974: 141-147. "Exposition Center Hailed as Tribute to the Late Publisher." Chicago Tribune 19 November 1960: A1. Halvorson, David. "At Least Half of Big Center Destroyed." Chicago Tribune 17 January 1967. Howard, Robert 'Plan Illinois Act To Restore McCormick Place." Chicago Tribune 17 January 1967. Hughes, Frank. "McCormick Place Top Exhibition Center." Chicago Tribune 12 January 1967: C1. Hughes ...
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