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...remain inexplicable, hence you should go prepared to be bored. A few of the heavies: Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Santana, Sebastian, Joe Cocker, Ten Years After, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, each set more intolerably mediocre than the last and if you start with Baez doing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," you can imagine where that takes you. Where are the Airplane, or the Dead, or even the Band...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: 'Woodstock' on Film No Love for Rock | 9/24/1970 | See Source »

Suburbia has long had a special place in American social mythology. Its chroniclers in fiction are John Cheever and Peter De Vries, its poet laureate Phyllis McGinley. The $50,000 split level is its castle, the barbecue chef its master of the revels, the station wagon its chariot, the 8:03 or the clogged expressway its cup of doom. Few modern Americans feel much nostalgia for the farm or the small town, and most now find the once glittering big cities tarnished with decay. The pull of the suburb has been so strong that suburbanites are becoming the most numerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Suburbia Regnant | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...remain inexplicable, hence you should go prepared to be bored. A few of the heavies: Joan Baez, Richic Havens, Santana, Sebastian, Joe Cocker, Ten Years After. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, each set more intolerably mediocre than the last and if you start with Baez doing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," you can imagine where that takes you. Where are the Airplane, or the Dead, or even the Band...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The Moviegoer Woodstock at Cheri Theatres | 4/15/1970 | See Source »

...about the meaning of humility?"A humble man must be strong. Jesus taught us that" ?and recommends a play that some of the neighborhood's angry young blacks are presenting in the Dashiki Project Theater, for which the parish supplies space. The Mass closes with Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. Membership is particularly strong among the young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW MINISTRY: BRINGING GOD BACK TO LIFE | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...with limestone blocks. Holes cut in the limestone enabled inspectors to keep an eye on the sewer system underneath. The Romans had also anticipated the roadside refreshment stand by building a bar at the edge of the road, complete with earthen vases in which beverages were kept cool. A chariot driver could pull up to the bar and drink standing up while his horses drank at an adjacent fountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Under the Peach Orchard | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

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