tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59066771391528394402024-03-13T06:00:57.411-04:00History: Bottom LinesI'm a historian....I'm posing questions, and offering discussion, about the realities of the history we think we know, and some aspects of history that we don't fully know. If your comments clarify and expand mine, so much the better....Rick SubberRick Subberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117679082089176132noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906677139152839440.post-38039375241776815302016-12-11T14:56:00.003-05:002017-06-09T13:36:00.214-04:00Everything I write is now posted daily on my website<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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Rick Subberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117679082089176132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906677139152839440.post-53132686132356470862016-10-29T07:12:00.000-04:002016-10-29T07:12:06.906-04:00Rick Subber's new website<br />
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Here’s a sneak preview of my new website, check it out here:<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s still under construction, but you can read samples of my poetry and my blog posts on books and book reviews, history, politics and some strange and wonderful stuff in the “Tidbits” category.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the near future I will say goodbye to my three longstanding blogs—Barley Literate, History: Bottom Lines, and Magister Librorum—and do all of my daily posting on the website, where everything will be conveniently accessible from a single landing page.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I will manage the new website in tandem with my dedicated Facebook page, <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Richard-Subber-1320938847929886/"><span style="font-size: large;">click here</span></a></span> to take a look at it—and please “Like” the new Facebook page if you care to, I need 25 “Likes” to get access to some advanced Facebook audience measurements (all aggregate stuff, no personal or private information about individual persons, not even a little bit, not ever).</div>
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With appropriate humility and excessive excitement, I mention that in the near future I will publish my first poetry chapbook. Stay tuned!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanks again for your kind consideration in reading my daily scribblings. I try to write something worth reading every day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rick Subberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117679082089176132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906677139152839440.post-43390283719595151672016-09-26T09:39:00.003-04:002016-09-26T09:39:57.135-04:00"...the commotions in America..."<br />
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It seems not everyone in London languished in post-war pain for years and years after the American colonists won the Revolutionary War.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>“… As he presided in [Georgia] for two and twenty years with distinguished ability and integrity, it seems to be a tribute justly due to his merit as a faithful servant of his king and Country. <i>Before the commotions in America</i>, his example of industry and skill in the cultivation and improvement of Georgia was of eminent advantage…”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<a href="http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2014/10/book-review-lafayette-lessons-in.html">Book review: Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership...</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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In <a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/crazy-horse-killed?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2016-0905-09052016&om_rid=894d768233a3e73abd5d757f4b71bf9bf8181a480dfba73c8fb2fb39b794dd99&om_mid=86633297&kx_EmailCampaignID=6928&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-tdih-2016-0905-09052016&kx_EmailRecipientID=894d768233a3e73abd5d757f4b71bf9bf8181a480dfba73c8fb2fb39b794dd99"><span style="color: blue;">America in 1877</span></a>, 101 years after the Declaration
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….and a U. S. soldier with
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The 19<sup>th</sup> century
successes of the Chautauqua Institution of New York have always appealed to me.
I believe I would have been thrilled to attend the profoundly educational
lectures of the itinerant speakers who followed the Chautauqua circuit. For
some Americans—and for many middle-class women—the Chautauqua offerings were
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The Chautauqua Institution
was founded in 1874 as a teaching camp for Sunday school teachers. The concept
spread through the United States. At its peak in the 1920s the movement offered
a broad range of lectures and music on both religious and nondenominational
topics, in more than 10,000 communities. By 1940 the network of originally
Victorian-style centers of learning and culture had lost their mass appeal,
after enriching the lives of more than 45 million men and women. Today, the
Chautauqua Institution on the original site is alive and well, and still
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In the late 19<sup>th</sup> century,
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The Chautauqua centers were
attractive destinations. One such place was the New England Chautauqua Sunday
School Assembly at Mount Wayte in Framingham, MA. From 1880-1918 it offered a
steadily diversifying assortment of lectures and performances, drawing a
dedicated audience from the area that would become MetroWest Boston. Those
folks wanted to vacation in comfort and style, and they also were committed to
a high-quality experience. Rail service to Mount Wayte was busy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>“One form
of vacation consistent with middle-class values and the moral climate of the
New England region was the religious retreat…A critical mass of ordinary
Americans displayed another powerful need, compatible with the ideal of a
Christian vacation: the purposeful employment of leisure time for education and
individual self-improvement.”</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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A reliable corps of
attendees was <b><i>“middle-class women, whose access to higher education
was restricted by tradition and circumstance […they] formed the bedrock of the
institution.”</i></b></div>
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Think of TED Talks without
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Anita C. Danker, “Redeeming
the Time: Learning Vacations at the New England Chautauqua Assembly,” <i>The
Massachusetts Historical Review</i>, Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. 17,
2015, 67-97.<o:p></o:p></div>
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an hour!</a></span><span style="color: #101010; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for only 10 cents</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Rick Subberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117679082089176132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906677139152839440.post-26878687540027969132016-09-02T17:04:00.002-04:002016-09-02T17:04:56.295-04:00….another 3rd grade tour<div>
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An historical society
docent of course doesn’t mind talking about the same stuff with every tour
group, and the groups with kids reliably ask the old familiar questions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The eager 3<sup>rd</sup> graders
making the pilgrimage to the historic district along the Charles River in
Natick, MA, prove the point. Sometimes it’s not easy to encourage a sensible
understanding of the context of “350 years ago,” but the kids are all too ready
to engage in such thinking in their own terms.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In a few years maybe
they’ll be ready to expand that thinking just a bit:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Another 3<sup>rd</sup> grade
tour</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, yes, Anna, this is
the same river<o:p></o:p></div>
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the Nipmuc
Indians knew in 1651</div>
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it was here, they fished in
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and, yes, they saw ducks
like those</div>
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on the other
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and, no, it’s not too deep,<o:p></o:p></div>
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but, here’s another way to
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the river is new today,<o:p></o:p></div>
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it’s filled with new rain,<o:p></o:p></div>
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it carries a different twig
over the dam,<o:p></o:p></div>
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it swirls new bubbles<o:p></o:p></div>
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from the fish
we didn’t quite see,<o:p></o:p></div>
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the river has forgotten the
feel of a canoe,<o:p></o:p></div>
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forgotten how
to turn the mill wheel,<o:p></o:p></div>
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it has learned to ignore<o:p></o:p></div>
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the ever
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and it sniffs in surprise<o:p></o:p></div>
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each time new
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and those ducks on the
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are new this
year, too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Published July 29, 2016, at <a href="https://whispersinthewind333.blogspot.com/2016/07/another-3rd-grade-tour-by-richard-carl.html?showComment=1469909732080#c3858680424045673098"><span style="color: blue;">Whispers</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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an hour!</a></span><span style="color: #101010; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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electronic music</a></span><span style="color: #101010; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0563c1; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2016/09/many-waters-cannot-quench-love.html">"Many waters cannot quench love."</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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"stupid"?</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Rick Subberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117679082089176132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906677139152839440.post-51567663010770787742016-08-27T06:53:00.000-04:002016-08-27T06:53:56.398-04:00Gee willikers, six miles an hour!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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Roller coasters have been a
hit since the early 1800s in France.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The <span style="background: white;"><a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-roller-coaster-in-america-opens?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2016-0616-06162016&om_rid=894d768233a3e73abd5d757f4b71bf9bf8181a480dfba73c8fb2fb39b794dd99&om_mid=57944329&kx_EmailCampaignID=5392&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-tdih-2016-0616-06162016&kx_EmailRecipientID=894d768233a3e73abd5d757f4b71bf9bf8181a480dfba73c8fb2fb39b794dd99"><span style="color: blue;">first roller coaster</span></a></span> in America
opened in 1884 on Coney Island in Brooklyn.<o:p></o:p></div>
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LaMarcus Thompson built
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Railway.” Basically, the cars started at one end of a slightly elevated track,
rolled 600 feet to the other end, and then rolled back to the starting point.
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electronic music</a></span><span style="color: #101010; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rick Subberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117679082089176132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906677139152839440.post-51054313625378348702016-08-22T07:46:00.000-04:002016-08-22T07:46:15.766-04:00The women who pioneered electronic music<br />
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Electronic music doesn’t talk to me in a real loud voice, but this piece from
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It’s intriguing because it
mentions the not too surprising fact that women were involved in the earliest
incarnations of electronic music, back in the 1950s and even earlier.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Didja ever hear of Daphne
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I think it’s a good bet I
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OpenCulture explains that
these women <b><i>“<span style="background: #F4F7F8;">represent a small
sampling of too-often-overlooked electronic composers, musicians, engineers,
and theorists whose work deserves wider appreciation, not because it’s made by
women, but because it’s innovative, technically brilliant, and beautiful music
made by people who happen to be women.”</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(244, 247, 248);">Read a
little bit about them and hear their ethereal music </span><a href="http://www.openculture.com/2016/06/4-women-who-pioneered-electronic-music-daphne-oram-laurie-spiegel-eliane-radigue-pauline-oliveros.html"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a><span style="background: #F4F7F8;">.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(244, 247, 248);">Amen,
sister.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(244, 247, 248);">I’m
sticking with Odetta and Joan Baez (her early work), but this was a tantalizing
interlude.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://historybottomlines.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-times-they-are-changin.html"><span style="color: #0563c1;">The times they are a-changin'....</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Rick Subberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117679082089176132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906677139152839440.post-3872041197034166512016-08-16T11:10:00.000-04:002016-08-16T17:44:36.566-04:00The times they are a-changin’….<div>
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The inexorable demographic
transformation of America is part of the context for the current dangerous
turmoil in our politics.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For instance, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/the-eclipse-of-white-christian-america/490724/?utm_source=atltw"><span style="color: blue;">TheAtlantic.com points out</span></a> that less than
half of Americans are now classified as white Christians. Less than 30% of the
18-29 age cohort identify themselves as white Christians.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nevertheless, it’s true
that almost three-quarters of all adults claim to be Christian (including
Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox and other non-Protestant Christian faiths). So,
the minority status of white Christians is largely driven by the increasing
proportion of persons of color in the U. S. population.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Increasing diversity of the
American citizenry is inevitable. Increasingly, ballot boxes will reflect this
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I think these changes will
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I look forward to the
election of more folks who will champion the kind of government an increasingly
diverse population needs and wants.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As you know, it wasn’t
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In 1889, legislators in
the <a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wyoming-legislators-write-the-first-state-constitution-to-grant-women-the-vote?et_cid=81311562&et_rid=1207894161&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.history.com%2fthis-day-in-history%2fwyoming-legislators-write-the-first-state-constitution-to-grant-women-the-vote"><span style="color: blue;">Wyoming territory approved</span></a> a constitution
establishing the right of women to vote. Wyoming became the national pioneer in
legalizing women’s suffrage in 1890 when it was admitted to the union as the 44<sup>th</sup> state.
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The Isle of Man in the
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Zealand became <a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-zealand-first-in-womens-vote?et_cid=80959384&et_rid=1207894161&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.history.com%2fthis-day-in-history%2fnew-zealand-first-in-womens-vote"><span style="color: blue;">the first country</span></a> to establish national
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Paula S. Fass <a href="http://www.delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p=3101">writes about it</a> in <i>The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child</i> (Princeton University Press, 2006). A <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/books/review/the-end-of-american-childhood-by-paula-s-fass.html?_r=0">New York Times reviewer</a> points out that the narrative gets a bit lost in the most recent history of “helicopter parents” who are overwhelmingly focused on controlling and protecting their children so they grow up to great lives with success and affluence and notable careers and….cue the all-important play date….make sure Joshua can get into Yale….</div>
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It’s intriguing to me to understand that colonial parents rather consciously moved away from the Old World view of children as economic resources, and adopted a more relaxed willingness to give their kids some degree of independence and flexibility in their paths to adult life. Of course, kids were put to work at a young age, but parents gave them opportunity and approval to feel engaged in the work and be open to wider horizons and innovation. Europeans thought that American children were “rude, unmannerly and bold.”</div>
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There were many circumstantial differences at work. In the colonies and early United States, there was an abundance of cheap land and a shortage of labor, and thus, pervasive opportunities for personal success. The European tradition of primogeniture was largely absent: on our side of the Atlantic, a father’s land and estate did not pass automatically to the firstborn son, so the more egalitarian inheritance practices boosted the life prospects of most children.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Transcontinental
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three days and 11 hours!—and stunned the nation. A human being could ride the
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The coast-to-coast railroad
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10 days to travel the 225 miles, using horsepower, from Monticello to his
office in Philadelphia (the national capital until 1801). <a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/express-train-crosses-the-nation-in-83-hours?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2016-0604-06042016&om_rid=894d768233a3e73abd5d757f4b71bf9bf8181a480dfba73c8fb2fb39b794dd99&om_mid=53743688&kx_EmailCampaignID=5133&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-tdih-2016-0604-06042016&kx_EmailRecipientID=894d768233a3e73abd5d757f4b71bf9bf8181a480dfba73c8fb2fb39b794dd99"><span style="color: blue;">History.com notes</span></a> that at the time, the
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Bartholomew Gosnold, in 1602. Yup, 18 years before the <i>Mayflower</i> and that Plymouth Rock stuff.
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at what is now Provincetown, the explorers started checking out the bay area.
The sailors caught so many codfish in the bay that they reportedly had to throw
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Later, after scouting down the Atlantic shore of the peninsula, he
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huckleberries, and named it “Martha’s Vineyard” in memory of his deceased
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<a href="http://magisterlibrorum.blogspot.com/2016/05/book-review-american-crisis.html">Book
review: American Crisis</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Rick Subberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117679082089176132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906677139152839440.post-38118723283338002762016-05-18T18:05:00.002-04:002016-05-18T18:05:43.047-04:00It wasn’t the good old days….<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i><span style="background: white;">“ </span></i></b></span><b><i><span style="background: white;">...in 1853, Sarah Parker Remond and two other
African Americans entered a Boston theater intending to enjoy a Mozart opera.
When the manager discovered they were people of color, he directed them to the
segregated balcony. Remond and her companions refused to sit there. When they
were asked to leave, an argument ensued, and the police were summoned. One of
the officers handled Sarah roughly. Refusing to be intimidated, she sued and
won $500 in damages.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Let’s be clear: this happened in Massachusetts, a
boiling cauldron of anti-slavery activism in the middle of the 19<sup>th</sup>
century.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://magisterlibrorum.blogspot.com/2016/05/another-thought-about-biographies.html">Another
thought about biographies</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2016/05/do-you-cross-bridges.html">Do
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Rick Subberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117679082089176132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906677139152839440.post-32375139891372911272016-04-22T09:24:00.001-04:002016-04-22T09:24:41.229-04:00It started out as a “bachelor’s” degree….<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
There’s a plain Jane reason why that
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In the 11<sup>th</sup> century, the men
who went to college for their first degree attained a respectable mastery of
knowledge, but it wasn’t enough to set them up for good jobs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hence, they were generally unable to
support a family, and thus remained bachelors until they went further in their
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In common parlance, they earned the
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The <span style="background: white;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University">first Western university</a></span> was the
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There is some high-toned dispute about
the founding date of the first American “university.” Harvard, without a doubt,
was established in 1636 as the first “institution of higher learning” in the English
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<i>Medieval Christianity</i> in explaining
the impact of universities on the development of Western civilization, starting
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By the way, the academic powerhouse we
think of as a “university” was originally an outgrowth of the medieval guilds,
and the name “university” is shorthand for <i>un</i><i><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">iversitas magistrorum et scholarium</span></i><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, that is, a "community of teachers and scholars.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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children..."</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #0563c1;"><a href="http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2016/04/its-official-again.html">It's official, again.</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Morganfield was born 103 years ago, nobody knew that he would become “the
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<span style="background: white;">Lucky for us, folklorist Alan Lomax
“discovered” Muddy Waters” in 1941 and made the first recordings of the
unshackled voice of the blues that would make such an enduring, personal
statement in such fully dimensioned classics as “Rollin’ Stone,” “Hoochie
Coochie Man,” “Got </span>My Mojo Workin,’” and “Mannish Boy.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>“…I spell mmm, aaa child, nnn<br />
That represents man<br />
No B, O child, Y…”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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Waters can make you a believer about the good qualities of a mannish
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He was one of <a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/muddy-waters-is-born?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2016-0404-04042016&om_rid=894d768233a3e73abd5d757f4b71bf9bf8181a480dfba73c8fb2fb39b794dd99&om_mid=35310887&kx_EmailCampaignID=3809&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-tdih-2016-0404-04042016&kx_EmailRecipientID=894d768233a3e73abd5d757f4b71bf9bf8181a480dfba73c8fb2fb39b794dd99">the genuine musicians</a> who seriously influenced the likes
of Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones—who took their name from the classic Muddy
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Waters didn’t have to wrap his lips around the microphone to sing his
full-throated songs that invoke zest, and longing, and desperately earnest
immersion in life, always up to the hilt….<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://magisterlibrorum.blogspot.com/2016/03/book-review-dead-wake-last-crossing-of.html">Book
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education thought it was groovy to misspell words and then use the resulting
abbreviations as slang (guess who probably didn’t quite know what the kids were
talking about….). Such as “OW” meaning “all right” (the misspelled form was
“oll wright”) and “KG” for “No go” (“Know go”).
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So, “O.K.” showed up….that is, “oll
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It first appeared in print—as part of a
joke—on March 23, 1839, in The Boston Morning Post. You gotta believe that
early 19<sup>th</sup> century journalists had the same awesome sense of humor
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Irving Berlin was the </span><a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/irving-berlin-copyrights-the-biggest-pop-song-of-the-early-20th-century?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2016-0318-03182016&om_rid=894d768233a3e73abd5d757f4b71bf9bf8181a480dfba73c8fb2fb39b794dd99&om_mid=30605686&kx_EmailCampaignID=3460&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-tdih-2016-0318-03182016&kx_EmailRecipientID=894d768233a3e73abd5d757f4b71bf9bf8181a480dfba73c8fb2fb39b794dd99">top tune of 1911</a><span style="color: #101010;">, selling many millions of copies of….the
sheet music. Most people heard the song when someone in the family sat down at
the piano to tickle the ivories. The iconic Victrola phonograph was just
starting to get up some steam in the consumer market, and radio didn’t go
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Band” is a simple version of ragtime—Scott Joplin could have played it with one
hand tied behind his back, more or less. So more or less anybody could easily
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<span style="color: #101010;">Here’s a link to </span><a href="http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/recordings/detail/id/2259/">a 1911 recording</a><span style="color: #101010;"> made a few months after the song hit the market….and </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPTbgvzgMZU">here's a link</a><span style="color: #101010;">to
The Andrews Sisters (their career spanned 1925-1967) doing their version.</span></div>
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you already know some of the words:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=84">John Chapman</a> “Johnny Appleseed”
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“Johnny Appleseed” got rich planting
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John Chapman was a savvy businessman
who followed the early American settlers as they headed west over the
Appalachian Mountains, and he made a pile of money selling them apple orchards
and apples to make fermented apple cider.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The happy-go-lucky “Johnny Appleseed”
myths were created about 100 years ago by big commercial apple growers who were
trying to rehabilitate their image in a time when the evils of John Barleycorn
were a big social issue.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chapman was born in Leominster, MA,
just before the Revolutionary War got started. In 1797, at the age of 27, <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/johnny-appleseed-38103#career">he set out</a> for Ohio country, and lived a more or less itinerant life thereafter.</div>
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In much of the frontier lands, hard
cider was the only booze readily available. Chapman traveled far and wide,
buying cheap riverbottom land and planting apple orchards. He hired boys to
help tend the trees, and when they matured, he sold the apples and often sold
the orchards to nearby farmers. When he died, he owned more than 1,200 acres of
valuable orchard property and he was a rich man. He was a businessman.</div>
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The traditional “Johnny Appleseed”
persona is “usually pictured shoeless, clad in rags, with a tin pot for a hat,
striding happily through the forest with a bag of apple seeds over his shoulder
and an assortment of woodland animals as his companions. He is portrayed as a
gentle and godly man, who brought the wholesome apple to men and women living
on the edge of civilization.”</div>
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Chapman was a nature lover and a
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maybe it was mentioned
in the recent “too white” Oscar flub-a-dub, but I’ll just rack ‘em up one more
time for Hattie McDaniel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Who’s Hattie McDaniel?” you’re not a <i>Gone
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<span style="background-color: white;">She also was the first
black thespian to earn an Oscar. She took Best Supporting Actress in 1940, one
of the eight Oscars awarded to </span><i>Gone With
The Wind</i><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Hattie had many
talents. She sang in traveling minstrel groups as a teenager, and was one of
the first black women to be a radio singer in the U. S.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">She started doing films
in 1932, and played the roles of maids and cooks in almost 40 films in the
1930s, capping that run with her memorable role as a house slave, opposite
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Hattie’s portrayal of
stereotypical black servants was criticized in some quarters, but she shrugged
that off, saying she’d rather play a maid than be one.</span></div>
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to say “You go, girl!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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p.s. my trusted personal advisor notes
that Hattie—the only black person who was sitting down at the Oscar awards
ceremony—wasn’t seated at one of the banquet tables with the white folks, she
sat with her escort at a small round table near the kitchen door. Oh yeah,
another thing: Clark Gable had intended to escort Hattie to the premiere of <i>Gone With The Wind</i> in Atlanta, but he
was waved off—neither Hattie nor any other black person was allowed to attend
the film showing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://historybottomlines.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-dark-corner-of-history.html"><span style="color: #0563c1; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A dark corner of history....</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #0563c1; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://historybottomlines.blogspot.com/2016/03/mama.html">"Mama!"</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #0563c1; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://historybottomlines.blogspot.com/2016/03/aint-no-protest-song.html">"...ain't no protest
song."</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://magisterlibrorum.blogspot.com/2016/03/writing-i-can-tell-you-this.html">Writing: I can tell you this....</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Here’s a despicable flashback you’ll wish you don’t have to believe:<o:p></o:p></div>
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May 30, 1922, the formal
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The few black folks who
were invited were <a href="http://www.delanceyplace.com/index.php"><span style="color: blue;">forced to sit</span></a> in a separate, roped-off
section. Robert Moton, president of Tuskegee Institute—he was a <i>featured
speaker</i> that day—<a href="http://www.britannica.com/topic/Lincoln-Memorial-monument-Washington-DC"><span style="color: blue;">was not permitted</span></a> to sit on the speaker’s
platform, and instead had to sit in the segregated section.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A reporter for the Chicago
Defender, appalled by this flagrant display of racism, wrote “The venomous
snake of segregation reared its head at the dedication…The conquered have
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Rick Subberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117679082089176132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906677139152839440.post-20316867046358043322016-03-10T06:18:00.000-05:002016-03-10T06:18:02.507-05:00“Mama!”<div>
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Alexander Graham Bell patented his
“electrical speech machine” 140 years ago. A few months later he tried
unsuccessfully to sell the patent to Western Union. Apparently the company
didn’t think the invention had much promise. </div>
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I think Bell would have bet the ranch
that it was plain crazy to imagine that people would someday be able to walk
down the street while they were talking to a friend on the other side of the
world. One story has it that Bell thought folks would use the telephone primarily
to listen to distant musical performances. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In his youth Bell was a dedicated
tinkerer, with a steady penchant for inventing gadgets and stuff. Before the
telephone became a reality, <a href="http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=73">he and his brothers</a> “built a working model of a
mouth, throat, nose, and movable tongue, and attached a set of bellows for
lungs. They were so successful in getting the model to wail ‘MaMa’ that the
neighbors began to search for a child in distress.”</div>
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What are your kids inventing these
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<a href="http://historybottomlines.blogspot.com/2016/03/aint-no-protest-song.html"><span style="color: #0563c1; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"...ain't no protest
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have a teddy bear</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://magisterlibrorum.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-wisdom-of-charlie-munger.html">"A majority of life's errors..."</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Rick Subberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117679082089176132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906677139152839440.post-48720040727749427042016-03-01T06:23:00.000-05:002016-03-01T06:23:02.955-05:00“…ain’t no protest song.”<br />
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Maybe it’s been a while
since you said to yourself “Oh gosh, I’m getting old.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s been 54 years
since <a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bob-dylan-records-blowin-in-the-wind?et_cid=77630975&et_rid=1207894161&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.history.com%2fthis-day-in-history%2fbob-dylan-records-blowin-in-the-wind"><span style="color: blue;">Bob Dylan introduced</span></a> “Blowin’ In The Wind”
in Greenwich Village. He recorded this iconic song a couple weeks later, and it
was released in 1963. Dylan claimed he wrote the song in 10 minutes. The
Beatles claimed it was one of the songs that altered their early musical
development.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I can mention my personal
experience of hearing “Blowin’ In The Wind” sung by just about every band that
played for the troops in Vietnam, more or less at the same time they were
belting out “Leaving On A Jet Plane.”</div>
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Dylan blandly claimed “this
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Maybe you forget some of
the words. <a href="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/blowininthewind.html"><span style="color: blue;">Here they are</span></a>:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>How many
roads must a man walk down<br />
before you call him a man?<br />
How many seas must a white dove sail<br />
before she sleeps in the sand?<br />
Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly<br />
before they're forever banned?<br />
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The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind<br />
The answer is blowin' in the wind.<br />
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Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist<br />
before it is washed to the sea?<br />
Yes, and how many years can some people exist<br />
before they're allowed to be free?<br />
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head<br />
and pretend that he just doesn't see?<br />
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The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind<br />
The answer is blowin' in the wind.<br />
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Yes, and how many times must a man look up<br />
before he can see the sky?<br />
Yes, and how many ears must one man have<br />
before he can hear people cry?<br />
Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows<br />
that too many people have died?<br />
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The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind<br />
The answer is blowin' in the wind.</i></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<a href="http://historybottomlines.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-man-of-feeling.html"><span style="color: #0563c1;">"A Man of Feeling..."</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://magisterlibrorum.blogspot.com/2016/02/how-many-are-enough.html">How
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Morley once contributed a
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Book Store in Philadelphia:</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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"…Why do the literary
journals say so little in honor of man's only nirvana, the Secondhand
Bookstore?...A Man of Feeling always frequents the secondhanders."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Exactly. I find that I am
never annoyed by spending another few minutes in an old bookstore where there
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If that makes me a
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Sadly, Leary's—despite
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<span style="color: #0563c1; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://historybottomlines.blogspot.com/2016/02/your-great-grandmother-didnt-have-teddy.html">Your great-grandmother didn't
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<span style="color: #0563c1; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://historybottomlines.blogspot.com/2016/02/when-safety-standards-were-more.html">When safety standards were more
interesting....</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://magisterlibrorum.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-wisdom-of-william-cronon.html">The
wisdom of William Cronon</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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My parents were early adopters
in the early 1950s: they bought a television set. How they rationalized that
expenditure I do not know. I think it was a portable, maybe with a 7-inch
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They were among millions
who were putting down the cash to acquire technology with rabbit ears.<o:p></o:p></div>
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TV in its infancy was the
<a href="http://www.delanceyplace.com/index.php">fastest blooming technology</a> in the history of humankind.</div>
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At the end of World War II
there were only a few tens of thousands of privately owned television sets.
Within 10 years, two-thirds of American households had one. By the early 1960s
more than 90 percent of homes had a boob tube.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the early years, when
few households had a set, the neighborhood tended to gather at the house with a
TV for a social evening, watching whatever was on one of the (maximum 3)
available channels. I was a kid when the family drove into Philadelphia to
watch <i>The Wizard of Oz</i> on my uncle’s
brand-new color TV.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t watch TV
now—stopped channel checking almost seven years ago. OK, I make exceptions for
the Super Bowl and the State of the Union address and election returns in early
November.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m bound to say I don’t
think I’m missing much.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The news media industry,
particularly TV, has become a beast with no scruples. I think it is deranging
our society.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At least, in the old days,
we had the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkdd0VRFmRE"><i>Milton Berle Show</i></a>.</div>
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<a href="http://historybottomlines.blogspot.com/2016/02/your-great-grandmother-didnt-have-teddy.html"><span style="color: #0563c1; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Your great-grandmother didn't
have a teddy bear</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #0563c1; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://historybottomlines.blogspot.com/2016/02/when-safety-standards-were-more.html">When safety standards were more
interesting....</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #0563c1; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://historybottomlines.blogspot.com/2016/02/led-by-donkeys.html">"...led by
donkeys..."</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://magisterlibrorum.blogspot.com/2016/02/fahrenheit-451-anyone.html">Fahrenheit
451, anyone?</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #0563c1;"><a href="http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2016/02/maybe-your-kid-shouldnt-go-to-college.html">Maybe your kid shouldn't go to college</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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