Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time is 1943. Scene: the 440 Club in Indianapolis. A chunky, exuberant 20-year-old named Wes Montgomery sits on the bandstand. Inspired by the recordings of the great jazz guitarist Charlie Christian ("they burned my ears"), he has bought a guitar with his day-laborer's wages and learned Christian's solos by rote. Now, in his first professional appearance, he plays them through faultlessly...
...group called the Mastersounds. His playing, though bristling with authority, is unorthodox: he plucks the strings with his thumb in stead of his fingers or a plectrum, giving a rounded, intense tone, and he phrases in short, jabbing bursts instead of the looping legatos of most post-Christian guitarists. Enter Jazz Critic Ralph Gleason...
...discovered the virtue of the seminar and the conference, the church should also explore this avenue of intellectual discovery. According to Dr. Robert Luccock, professor of homiletics at Boston University, the intro duction of dialogue in worship means that "we are beginning to take seriously the idea that every Christian is in a true sense a minister...
...laconically concedes, "He charmed." But he delivers his prevailing opinion with icy finality "I hated my father." So deeply, in fact, that he had to hate what his father loved: "big men" (that is, those with money), nice "Things" (Father ended up in the "art needlework" business), and Christian Science...
Listen to I Dreamed I Saw Saint Augustine: "And I dreamed I was amongst the ones that put him out to death. And I awoke in anger, so alone and terrified. I put my fingers against the glass and bowed my head and cried." Saint Augustine is a despairing Christian philosopher who tears around trying to convert the un-Christian. Dylan admires him tremendously. Not because he believes Christianity is cool or because he even necessarily believes in God. The message is that it's really important to believe in something, anything, any religion, anything meaningful enough to tell...