Bücher von James Maynard

In the cut-throat world of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, the Link-a-Lingua school in Milan maintains its status by overcharging its students and underpaying its teachers. But with the summer term in full swing, there is trouble brewing. With ungodly hours, an unmotivated student body and cowboys running the show, it was only a matter of time before the workers grew restless. Mark and Sarah wanted nothing more than a quiet life. They were happily enjoying their Italian adventure. But when the conditions become unbearable, they take it upon themselves to lead the revolt. As attempts at peaceful resolution come to nothing, they realise that nothing short of all-out war will work to bring down the corrupt regime. With a heat wave on the way and the management too cheap to buy air-conditioning, the flies are soon circling the Link-a-Lingua classrooms as tensions begin to mount.

On the morning of June 19th, 1967 the mass of concert-goers, which had emerged from San Francisco and every far-reaching corner of America, awoke with a disappointing realization¿Monterey was officially over. The weekend of June 16th had marked the successful launch of rock music¿s first ever large-scale outdoor music festival. Yet by the following Monday, three days of unprecedented musical talent, peace, and universally positive vibes had disintegrated into the ether, bringing a lamentable return to reality. What had occurred at Monterey that weekend had been the materialization of something remarkable, a fleeting celebration of rock music, youthful counterculture, and the collective fulfillment of the hippies¿ far-out vision of America. With a graceful fluidity, rock left behind its insular, mainstream-innocence of the early 1960s to search for a more meaningful identity within American culture. This identity was built into the foundation of the rock festival, a cultural product which celebrated spontaneity, community, and most importantly, music as a peaceful means of revolt, challenging popular culture to reconsider its strictly enforced vision of the ¿American Experience."