Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Italy's Communist Party has a new look these days: young. The average age of the Central Committeemen elected at the party's recent Bologna congress is only 43 - and only eight of the 171 members are veterans of the days when the party was formed...
...there are-mainly because rock stars, like most young men, tend to brag about their conquests. They come, says Zappa, "from any home that has contact with rock and roll and with radio and records. That's everybody." Zappa contends that there are thousands of them, ranging in age all the way from 50 ("Although they have to look damned good at that age to get any action") down...
...Negro, he is an unlikely looking Wagnerian hero. The father of six children (soon there will be seven), Russell makes his living as a research chemist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Philadelphia. Until he started lessons at Philadelphia's Settlement Music School at the age of 26, he had done most of his singing in church choirs and shower -stalls. Instead of a Wagnerian selection, he sang an aria from Verdi's Otello, impressing the judges with his brooding intensity and naturally rich, dark-timbred voice. A good thing, too, because Otello "is the only role...
...blues began feeling good to Johnny at the age of eleven, when he first heard the records of Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf and Lightnin' Hopkins on the radio down home in Beaumont, Texas. He began playing along on a hand-me-down guitar from his grandfather. Three years later, Johnny, 14, and Brother Edgar, 11, had their own band, Johnny and the Jammers. They made $8 a night for gigs across the border in Louisiana, where clubs were more lenient about age requirements. Edgar recalls that though Johnny only took enough lessons to pick up a few chords...
...last long," says Chicago's VanderKooi. "The community has to recruit to survive. Yet only the West Coast Skids seem to be attracting any younger men-drawn, in part, by the area's hospitable climate and by the availability of harvesttime jobs." The median age of Bowery residents today is 67. As the old men die off, they are not being replaced...