Word: burdons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to Burdon, Hughson planned to burn down Fort George, in what is now the heart of Manhattan’s downtown financial district. Burton testified that, according to Hughson’s scheme, “when as the white People came to extinguish it, [the conspirators] would kill and destroy them.” Burton named names...
...argument over abortions really centers on whether we are sure that a fetus is human. There is no totally satisfactory answer to this. But does the burdon of proof rest on pro-lifers at all? To say that abortion is all right until somebody proves the humanity of the unborn is like saying that it is okay to do test bombing in an area, so long as there might not be people there. The area might be desert, it might be a city of 1.5 million people-- how can it be enough to say that abortion might not be violent...
...same things to say as black musicians. Therefore they adapt a black idiom, the blues, and try to make their music as black as possible. This imitation of black music runs along a continuum beginning with the Beatles at one end, the Rolling Stones toward the middle and Eric Burdon and Elvis Presley at the furthest extreme. No white musician, however, has been as successful in this pursuit as albino bluesman Edgar Winter, for Winter has done what all the imitators have longed to do--he has played at the Apollo Theater in New York, the Mecca of the black...
ERIC IS HERE (MGM). Time was when the Animals had growl and bite, a sound as earthy as the Rolling Stones'. But they have been tamed and harnessed to a carefully arranged orchestra, while Leader Eric Burdon sings a broad spectrum of the blues (In the Night, I Think It's Gonna Rain Today). Eric's voice is good and his sobs most mellifluous, but the total effect is more glossy than real...
...Rubber plant in East Gadsden, Ala. In 1960, Goodyear laid off eight Negroes who had more seniority than white workers who kept their jobs. The union, which agreed to separate seniority lists for each race, refused to help its Negro members. Even the union's international president, George Burdon, could not dissuade Local 12. Though federal negotiators got the Negroes reinstated in 1962, the local still refused to help them press for some 15 months' back wages...