... Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool - Aid Acid Test ( 1968 ) , an ac- count of the journey of novelist Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters , made up of the author's friends and family , on a bus painted psychedelic colors traveling coast to coast ...
Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age
... can't always remember where he learns things anymore. At Christmas, Leroy bought an electric organ for Norma Jean. She used to play the piano when she was in high school. “It don't leave you,” she told him once. “It's like riding a bicycle.
... The Coming Plague gained currency from the widely publicized Ebola virus outbreaks in Africa, the Hantavirus deaths in the United States, and especially the worldwide plague of HIV/AIDS. Readers of The Coming Plague, writes Garrett ...
What Democracy Looks Like: A New Critical Realism for a Post-Seattle World
... Betsey Brown, Ntozake Shange provides an oblique commentary on the ne- cessity of the rights revolution by representing the background story of a progressive doctor and his family in St. Louis. Naming the family “Brown” is emblematic in ...
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Historical Exploration of Literature
... Gilman's friends and family raised money to send her to S. Weir Mitchell's ... advice to “ live as domestic a life as far as possible , " to " have but two hours ' intellectual life a day , ” and “ never to touch pen , brush , or pencil again ...
Civic Passions: Seven who Launched Progressive America (and what They Teach Us)
... Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacei Action> (“freeze . . . race ... Pizza Hut, and KFC), and Burger King to agree to a per—pound raise from ... Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairitrade>, on the fair trade movement ...
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