On New Year's Eve, 1967, Bobby met up with some of his former school friends in Vidalia to bring in the New Year and to catch up on their accomplishments and their goals. They used this opportunity to kick up their heels before returning to the world of work, education, and armed services draft registration for the Vietnam War. Not long afterward came the notification of Sammy Galloway's "casualty" in the Tet Offensive. Now all that mattered to Bob was protesting the Vietnam War, parties and getting stoned. No place was better suited for the Hedonistic Paradise for the Disilusioned young man than Boston. In 1970 the war spilled into Cambodia with the students of Boston and Cambridge erupting in rage. They marched to the Harvard Bridge that joins Boston with Cambridge. It was called ""The Great Harvard Square Riot of 1970" and was witnessed by Bob Darby who relates what he saw.""

While growing up, Author Bob Darby often heard about the Milledgeville, Georgia, "insane asylum" where anyone who acted oddly could be put away simply for being different. Such behavior might include the expression of such views as those critical of religion, politics, or Jim Crow Segregation. Later in the 1960s, effective medications were introduced that successfully brought about remission from serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia. All over the country, many severely mentally ill people were discharged from mental hospitals resulting in a very large group of the homeless mentally ill who had no where to go but the streets. The 1960s were a decade of rapid change for the U.S. including the Civil Rights Movement that challenged Jim Crow Segregation while America committed itself to the Vietnam War. This collection of essays deals with America's current political controversies. Particular attention is given to the U.S. Army School of Americas where Latin American soldiers support U.S. Corporate interests by practicing torture and genocide.

Drawing on previously untapped archival materials including letters, interviews, and more, Bernard F. Dick traces the history of Columbia Pictures, from its beginnings as the CBC Film Sales Company, through the regimes of Harry Cohn and his successors, and ending with a vivid portrait of today's corporate Hollywood. The book offers unique perspectives on the careers of Rita Hayworth and Judy Holliday, a discussion of Columbia's unique brands of screwball comedy and film noir, and analyses of such classics as The Awful Truth, Born Yesterday, and From Here to Eternity. Following the author's highly readable studio chronicle are fourteen original essays by leading film scholars that follow Columbia's emergence from Poverty Row status to world class, and the stars, films, genres, writers, producers, and directors responsible for its transformation. A new essay on Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood rounds out the collection and brings this seminal studio history into the 21st century. Amply illustrated with film stills and photos of stars and studio heads, Columbia Pictures is the first book to integrate history with criticism of a single studio, and is ideal for film lovers and scholars alike.

Author Robert Wood Darby was born and raised in Georgia. This memoir is about the anti-racism advocate growing up in the fifties and sixties and coming of age in the segregated South during the Civil Rights Movement. Darby became an antiwar activist during the Vietnam War. He studied at Emory University, then at Tufts and Harvard in the late sixties - a time of upheaval for the entire country. He also chronicles his affliction with mental illness and manic depression, which has gone into remission.

This book provides a stimulating account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; music and radio; and the visual arts. Through detailed commentary and focused case studies of influential texts and events - from Invisible Man to West Side Story, from Disneyland to the Seattle World's Fair, from Rear Window to The Americans - the book examines the way in which modernism and the cold war offer two frames of reference for understanding the trajectory of postwar culture. The two core aims of this volume are to chart the changing complexion of American culture in the years following World War II and to provide readers with a critical investigation of 'the 1950s'. The book provides an intellectual context for approaching 1950s American culture and considers the historical impact of the decade on recent social and cultural developments.

Suitable for all admirers of the piano, this work brings together more than 3,000 works for piano and orchestra. It comes with a supplement containing over 200 new entries.