Word: bagged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what do you feel now?" John reached for the paper bag that was sitting in the waste basket behind...
...Psyche Bag. Dulin warmed up for his present job as a physical education instructor at St. Mary's High School in tiny, all-white West Point, Iowa. It was the only job offered to him after he graduated from St. Joseph's College in his home state of Indiana. A bachelor when he arrived in West Point, Dulin soon married, had three children and moved down the road to Fort Madison, a town with 300 blacks. There he quickly became president of the local chapter of the NAACP. The folks in West Point still remember the day when...
...this first novel Russell Greenan shows descriptive powers as impressive as his unsettling story is fanciful. He has an odd ear for uneven sounds. Describing a man's chuckle, for example, he writes: "It sounded as if someone down inside his throat was crumpling a paper bag." In real life, Greenan is a devoted student and connoisseur of art, which may partly explain his remarkable success at supporting raving fantasy and very real suspense in a single story. With painterly sleight of hand, he recreates the fabulous landscape of a deranged artist's mind. It is a terrain...
...good hurts was the absence of the President's awesome responsibilities, particularly the responsibility for war or peace. "It feels good," said Johnson, "not to have that sergeant with the little black bag a few feet behind me." The sergeant with the black bag is, of course, the man who is never far from the President of the U.S. -carrying the codes that can unleash the nation's nuclear striking force...
Given these two successful and fruitful approaches to white blues-playing, one is at a loss to understand where the blues style of Pacific Gas & Electric (another West Coast group at the Festival), with its amorphous bag of drum solos, wanton guitar effects and indifferent singing, fits in. I suspect it doesn't and I fear again that this is a malady common to too many American groups, born of half-assimilated influences from jazz and Cream...