The Kansas Citian published its own
chronology of the first 99 days.
The Economist compared Obama's approval rating at 100 days
with other U.S. Presidents.
The Wall
Street Journal headlined Obama "engaged, yet elusive" while
acknowledging, of course, that these times defy easy
descriptions and old labels. The Journal put the first one
hundred in historical
perspective as did the New York Times which asked
five
historians for their view.
The Takeway
talked to Nobel economist Paul Krugman.
Mr. Manning (in the Mechanic's Dungarees) dances up a storm in
the 1941 movie Hellzapoppin.
Excelling in what quickly became first America’s and
then the world’s most popular participatory form of
jazz dancing in the 1930s and ’40s, Mr. Manning led
the way in giving the Lindy hop professional
expression. The dance, which enables both partners to
improvise rhythmically at the same time, has had
enduring appeal as both a social and a performance
dance, sweeping aside hierarchical, class, ethnic and
gender conventions. When questioned about the
apparently irresistible allure of the Lindy, Mr.
Manning invariably described it as “a series of
three-minute romances."
