Word: born
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...realized that he was right. Waller said he thought English groups were so much more aggressive and alive, able to pick up the mantle from the great black blues and rock musicians of the past because their members are all from the same particularly troubled English generation that was born during and just after World...
AMERICAN PROFILE: HOME COUNTRY, U.S.A. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Are America's grass roots withering? This documentary, ranging from Maine to Texas, examines the philosophy, traditions, individuality and skills of some people who have always lived close to the rural community where they were born and raised. With Chet Huntley. Repeat...
Jubilation Shouts. Meanwhile, the rhythm-&-blues strain was picking up new momentum, while post-Beatle rock charged off on its own creative path. The man who gave R & B its fresh thrust was a blind, Georgia-born bard named Ray Charles, one of the most hauntingly effective and versatile Negro singers in the history of pop music...
Instinctively Wary. Ahmanson's growth was as phenomenal as that of Southern California itself. The Omaha-born son of the owner of a small insurance company, Ahmanson had built a $20,000 stake in the stock market by age 18, moved west to sell fire insurance, took to buying up foreclosed property during the Depression when, as he recalled, the "worse things got, the better they were for me." And when things got better for Ahmanson, they were fantastic. Deep in both S & Ls and real estate when the California building boom hit in the 1950s, Ahmanson profited from...
Such literary facts of life obviously do not scare the gifted Iowa-born Robert Coover. In his second novel, he employs precisely these concepts and what's more, swings for the fences. He does not quite make it, but he deserves at least an extra-base hit for an excellent attempt...