Word: ain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cajoled from his hideaway in Flat Rock, N.C. for a benefit honoring a nearby little-theater group, Poet Carl Sandburg, 80, lofted a missile seemingly aimed at San Francisco's Latin Quarter and Manhattan's MacDougal Street: "Poets ain't doin' so good. They are cursed by obfuscators. They read their poems to each other. They certify each other...
...This Ain't the Blues (Jimmy Rushing & band; Vanguard). The indestructible Mr. Five-by-Five of the old Basie Band shouts some familiar blues and ballads-My Friend Mr. Blues, Pennies from Heaven-with a voice like a curdled trumpet backed by a solid boomp-a-cha beat. Jimmy sometimes wheezes now, but his talent for reading a message of ageless evil into the simplest of lyrics-"Sometimes I think I will/Then again I think I won't" -is as strong as it ever...
Kept free from the tiniest taint; And when you let gentlemen pay for your rooms, The inference is that it ain...
...This whole thing, the obligations, the routine, it can all get to be like a trap. Now you take your mother, Billy, she don't understand this. Oh, it ain't that I don't love my family; it's just that - it ain't enough. I mean, a man's got an obligation to himself, too, to be happy the best way he can. D'y'understand?" But how can a kid that age understand? Pa gives up and buys him a beer and goes off to see his girl...
...sounds the cat that pushes the junk, and then he tries to score. So they fall up to the main man's pad, and before you can blast a joint, everybody is tuned in. The main man offers him a pop of H, but this kid ain't dry-he's a plainclothes fuzz. And the next day, when it's time to deliver the stuff, there's a shuffle that's very tough toenails for the busters. Be there with your bear, and if you don't flip I'm sorry...