Word: appalachians
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...programs too diverse to support any generalization, except that manpower training has grown into a bureaucratic monstrosity. There are separate programs-many bearing such optimistic names as Apprenticeship Outreach, Operation Mainstream, JOBS, JUMP and WIN-for the urban poor and the rural poor; for blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and Appalachian whites; for Viet Nam veterans, displaced aircraft engineers and welfare mothers...
James Taylor. Baby James has come quite a ways since that night at Sanders. Superstardom, its problems, liasons with Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon, marriage, life of the West Coast, building a house on Martha's Vineyard, even a couple albums. It may be the flat Appalachian twang, or the dryness of his wit, but I think James Taylor sings his life better than Neil Young sings his. What it really is, is that he approaches, but never reaches, the bounds of insipidity...
...WEST VIRGINIA. They look a little Appalachian as they tramp the West Virginia hills: the gangling 6-ft. 6-in. man (who gulps three burgers and three Cokes at a sitting), his uncomfortable six-months-pregnant wife, and occasionally his little sister. But the man is John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV, 35, great-grandson of the Standard Oilman, Democratic nephew of New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Wife Sharon, 27, is the attractive daughter of Illinois Senator Charles Percy. Sister Alida Rockefeller recently graduated from Stanford...
...among other things, a study of popular song lyrics, science fiction and books such as The Greening of America and The Harrad Experiment; $232,622 was earmarked for Alice Lloyd College, a small institution in Kentucky, for new courses including one that would use drama to teach students their Appalachian culture; and $650,000 was for Fisk University for a new program that would incorporate teaching techniques like "guerrilla theater." Berman said these elements of the three projects failed to meet the endowment's standards of quality. "We owe people the best of education," he explained...
...Morrison communicates with his voice better than any but the best of the blues singers. Other rock singers must resort to other means: James Taylor opposes the personalness of his statement with the Appalachian flatness of his voice; Jagger relies on his onstage phyrotechnics, as does Rod Stewart; Joan Baez and Judy Collins are interpreters; Joni Mitchell catches you with words. Only Van Morrison can get to you purely with his voice...