Word: chariot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words of one of his writers, "he thinks he is 19." He diets, drinks very little, and doesn't smoke at all. Advancing age frightens him. So he seldom stops to think about it, zipping around golf courses or around the world, giving the winged chariot a run for its money. This has made him a transient in his own home. He jokes that the towels in his bathroom say HERS and WELCOME STRANGER. His wife spends most of her time working for Catholic charities. They have four children. The oldest, Anthony, is a student at Harvard Law. Gradually...
Once he made his discovery, Dr. Pruitt began a loud vocal opposition to the AEC's Project Chariot, which was a plan to use nuclear explosives to blast a spacious harbor in the Alaskan coast. The side effects, he said, would harm the Eskimos even more. Although he was fired from the university, he continued to make all the noise he could about the danger of feeding more fallout into the Eskimo food chain. The AEC's present management now watches the Eskimos carefully and measures their body burden as it creeps ever higher...
...music, which, with the single exception of country music, has supplied them with every new idea since the blues. Last week, with appropriate fanfare, they proclaimed they had found the sound: pop gospel. Waving contracts and recording tape, Columbia Records moved into a new Manhattan nightclub called the Sweet Chariot and began packaging such devotional songs as He's All Right for the popular market. "It's the greatest new groove since rock 'n' roll," said Columbia Pop A. & R. Director David Kapralik. "In a month or two, it'll be all over the charts...
Still, everyone behaved well: the trade papers ran cheerful forecasts and chitchat columnists began comparing the Sweet Chariot's society audience to the old Peppermint Lounge gang. Within three weeks of its opening night, the Chariot was so happily crowded that its owner announced plans to open two more Sweet Chariots in Chicago and Los Angeles...
...call it "ofay gospel") does not necessarily corrupt either singers or songs. But its adoption by the popular-record industry gives good reason for melancholy. To succeed with the predominantly teen-age audience, it will be hyped up and sanitized to the point of becoming grotesque. At the Sweet Chariot (where the rest rooms are labeled "Brothers" and "Sisters" and the bar girls are called "Angels"), two of the groups have already had their names changed by Columbia, and no doubt they will soon begin to sing arrangements of their music that are "more commercial...