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...great Memphis Delta blues-men (and of folk artists in general, they could knock you dead by the mere aura of unself-conscious authority that they projected. I think that what is happening with the Beatles is that they are beginning to achieve, in a rock context, that exact amalgam of easy natural strength and sure-footed integrity born of a complete command over the medium. (Exciting to think that, before our eyes, the Beatles are doing it all over again-taking rock and roll up to yet another higher plane of cultural and artistic value.) The paramount position that...
...week before the scheduled Dec. 3 Faculty meeting, the SFAC finally held a vote. By a vote of 13 to 3, it passed the resolution that Albritton will present Tuesday. An amalgam of the HUC and HRPC plans, the SFAC resolution offers five steps for ending ROTC's academic status...
...intellectual history of the West: Plato's concept of Socratic virtue, the Christian expectation of the kingdom of God, the 18th century Utopian philosophy of natural law, and Marx and Engels' analysis of capitalism. Silone's socialism is not an ephemeral system but an amalgam of unchanging values...
...stubborn Democratic battle that Humphrey watched in a 14th-floor hotel suite was in no small measure a tribute to his rare amalgam of warmth, courage, do-gooding liberalism and practical politics. "Hubert is not a gut fighter," Lyndon Johnson, an expert judge of the breed, carped in 1960. Yet Humphrey could hit hard and often-as he did in the closing weeks of the 1968 campaign. Despite his revilement by dis. sident Democrats, there is no reason why Humphrey should not remain a major figure in the Democratic Party. Still, his defeat marks an exit-the exit...
When Louis XVI succeeded Louis XV in 1774, the rococo was superseded by the neoclassical mode, an improbable amalgam of Roman severity and Bourbon frivolity exemplified by the small writing desk that stands between two tapestry-covered Louis XV armchairs. The desk's spare lines are in conflict with the riot of gilded tassels, leaves, garlands and mythological heads. In politics, the warring desires for republican simplicity and kingly extravagance proved even more difficult to resolve, and after the French Revolution the curios made for kings descended to commoners. A Jacques-Louis David crayon drawing of Napoleon...