Word: clydes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kwanza came into existence about five years ago, spurred on by Maulana Ron Karenga,* head of the black nationalist organization called US. "He saw that black people here had no holidays of their own," says Imamu Clyde Halisi, national chairman of US, "and felt that holidays give a people a sense of identity and direction." Although many of the blacks who celebrate Kwanza no longer take part in Christmas festivities, they insist that the new holiday is not intended to be a replacement for Christmas. Instead, says Muminina Jaribu, a member of the Committee for a Unified Newark...
...cities of the North. This interest has been manifested in various ways. Rock music has seen such groups as The Band, Grateful Dead, Burrito Brothers, Sea Train, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage, turn to styles and instruments previously reserved for southern music. Since Bonnie and Clyde and the Beverly Hillbillies series, fiddles and banjos can be heard almost every evening on some commercial. And songs and artists like Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash, who used to be known only by country and western buffs, are now known to most followers of rock...
Father Fox's Pennyrhymes by Clyde and Wendy Watson. 56 pages. Thomas Y. Crowell. $4.50. A clever, cheerful, jazzy Vermont general store of a book. Foxes, rabbits and such go sashaying around in galluses, corncobs and calico, all presented in comic-strip scenes, sight gags and family gatherings. The text is a lacing of verse that ranges from nonsense to nostalgia...
Hoover was shocked by the flagrant lawlessness of the attack. Criminals like John Dillinger, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, Ma Barker, and Alvin "Old Creepy" Karpis had captured the public imagination; movies and newspaper accounts portrayed them as misguided but romantic outlaws fighting the system which had caused the Depression. Hoover must have felt that an entire generation of American children was threatened by the growth of this myth, and he determined to offer an alternative model: the FBI director and his corps of brave Special Agents...
...everything she says. Do you agree with your mother on everything?" Lieut. Jennings had reason to be defensive. His mother is Martha Mitchell, loquacious wife of Attorney General John Mitchell. "My identity always catches up with me," complained the 23-year-old son of Martha and her first husband, Clyde Jennings. "When they find out who I am, I get static from the things she says. I have to show a great deal of humility...