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;void(0)) . . . BICYCLES see "TRAVEL" for related links see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links PHOTOGRAPH: The Hudson River near West Point, New York Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do! I'm half crazy, all for the love of you! It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage, But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two! --Harry Dacre (1860-1922) English songwriter, _Daisy Bell_ [1892] When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Scottish-born writer of detective fiction The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. --Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher, _The Red and the Green_ Bicycles are good exercise. And so is swinging through trees on your tail. Mankind has invested more than four million year of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot- powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history. --P.J. O'Rourke (1947- ) American political satirist, "A Cool and Logical Analysis of the Bicycle Menace", in _Republican Party Reptile_ [1987] The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community. --Ann Strong, "Minneapolis Tribune" [1895] When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. --H.G.Wells (1866-1946) English novelist  ;void(0)) BIG BAND . . see "MUSIC" for related links A clarinetist and bandleader, Mr. Shaw's music sold more than 100 million records with a stunning series of hit-making songs, including Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" and Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust." His music so defined its period that Time magazine wrote that on the verge of World War II, the United States meant to the Germans "skyscrapers, Clark Gable and Artie Shaw." --Adam Bernstein, "Jazz Giant Artie Shaw Dies at Age 94", _The Washington Post_ [31 December 2004] - INTERESTING WEBSITE: http://www.swingmusic.net/Big_Band_Playlist.html ;void(0)) BIG BUSINESS . . see "CAPITALISM" for related links The other day, by a vote of five to four-- a kind of craps game-- come seven, come 'leven-- they [the U.S. Supreme Court] declared the child labor law unconstitutional-- a law secured after twenty years of education and agitation on the part of all kinds of people. And yet, by a majority of one, the Supreme Court a body of corporation lawyers, with just one exception, wiped that law from the statute books, and this in our so-called democracy, so that we may continue to grind the flesh and blood and bones of puny little children into profits for the Junkers of Wall Street. And this in a country that boasts of fighting to make the world safe for democracy! The history of this country is being written in the blood of the childhood the industrial lords have murdered. --Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) American socialist leader, speech [1918] Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demand for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen. --Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Russian-born American writer, _America's Persecuted Minority_ The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest. . . The American beauty rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. --John D(avison) Rockefeller Sr. (1839-1937) American capitalist and philanthropist --- Historians and Fans Are Racing to Catalog Homes Sold by Sears By SARA SCHAEFER MUÑOZ _The Wall Street Journal_ May 15, 2006 Marilyn Raschka spends many of her weekends driving around unfamiliar neighborhoods, knocking on doors and talking her way into strangers' basements. Once downstairs, she breaks out her flashlight and shines it along exposed beams, hunting for a letter and some numbers that are each no bigger than a thumbprint. The 61-year-old resident of Hartford, Wis., is part of a small cadre of historians and passionate amateurs on a mission to identify and protect homes made by Sears, Roebuck and Co. About 70,000 to 100,000 of them were sold through Sears catalogs from 1908 to 1940. Distressed that the houses are falling victim to the recent boom in teardowns and renovations, their fans are scouring neighborhoods across the country, snapping pictures and sometimes braving snakes and poison ivy to poke around basements and attics for the telltale stamps that mark the lumber in most of the catalog homes. Because people can be shy about the state of their basements, Ms. Raschka brings along photos of her own messy cellar to persuade them to let her in. Precut houses ordered from a Sears catalog were shipped by boxcar in 30,000 pieces -- including shingles, nails and paint -- and assembled by a local carpenter or by the buyers themselves. Styles ranged from the elaborate, nearly $6,000 Magnolia, to the three-room, no-bath Goldenrod, sold in 1925 for $445. (Outhouses sold separately.) One of the larger Sears models, constructed in Takoma Park, Md., sold last year for about $900,000, according to a local real-estate agent. The homes caught on as the U.S. population grew and Americans began to move away from crowded city centers. Their popularity also was driven by the rise of company towns. In Carlinville, Ill., for example, Standard Oil ordered homes for its mine workers, 152 of which are still standing. Sears also encouraged sales to families with steady wages but little in savings by financing up to 100% of some of the homes. But many homeowners were forced to default during the Depression, and sales came to an end in 1940. [ . . . ] ----- maquiladora (noun) [mê-ki-lê-'do-rê] A US- or foreign-owned assembly plant just south of the US-Mexico border that employs low-cost labor to assemble products and ship them back, usually tariff-free, to the country of origin. . . see also: "ANTI-AMERICANISM" see also: "ANTI-SEMITISM" see also: "INTOLERANCE" see also: "NARROW-MINDEDNESS" see also "PREJUDICE" see also: "RACISM" see "HURTING (SOMEONE)" for other related links In America today, the only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry directed at religious people. --William J. Bennett (1943- ) American poiltician and author, quoted in John Bolt, _A Free Church, A Holy Nation: Abraham Kuyper's American Public Theology_, Eerdmans [2001] BIGOT, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. --Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American writer, _Devil's Dictionary_ Bigotry murders religion to frighten folks with her ghost. --C.C. Colton (1780-1832) English clergyman and writer The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it. --Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) German dramatist Every bigot was once a child free of prejudice. --Sister Mary de Lourdes The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me, for it is your duty to tolerate truth; but when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you, for it is my duty to persecute error. --Thomas Babington Macauley (1800-1859) English politician and historian Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand With a grip that kills it. --Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Hindu poet, philosopher and artist ...reminded me of my own son's kindergarten profundity...he had a new *best friend * I had heard much about John. Then the class photo came home. "Which one is John?" says I. "Oh that's easy," says my son.."he is the only one with the big stripes on his T-shirt".. John was also the only black Jamaican face in a sea of white ones. --anon. end page | BABIES - BALLET | BANANAS - BARTENDERS | BASEBALL | BASTARDS - BEATLES (THE) | BEAUTY | BED - BEGINNINGS | BEHAVIOR - BELIEF | BENNY (JACK) - BIBLE | BICYCLES - BIGOTRY | BILL OF RIGHTS - BIRDS | BIRTH - BIRTHDAYS | BITTERNESS & BLAIR (TONY) | BLAME - BLOGGING | BLONDES - BOOK BURNING | BODY (THE) | BOOKS | BOOMERS (THE) - BORROWING | BOSTON & BOXING | BOYS - BREAKING UP | BREASTS - BRITAIN | BROADWAY - BUBBLES (ECONOMIC) | BUGS BUNNY - BUREAUCRACY | BURMA SHAVE - BUSYBODIES | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | |
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