Word: coffeeshops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the day, Tuesday through Saturday, Passim is a coffeeshop and gallery with a wide variety of lunch items under $3 and hand-made art works, folk albums, and cards from over 40 countries. Classical music and the clink of teacups on saucers punctuate the continuous hum of conversation. By night, when Passim is transformed into The Listening Room, rows of chairs are added between the tables, enabling the place to seat about...
...this Saturday morning, seven Ku Klux Klansmen are sitting at a table in the Holiday Inn coffeeshop eating grits and scrambled eggs. Wives and children have been put at smaller tables. Out behind the inn, a dozen Mississippi state highway patrolmen are clustered around the trunk of a car, joking and passing out bullets like jelly beans as they draw a day's supply of ammunition. "Did you count 'em? I give you 18, didn't I?" says one. "Now, you know I can't count," comes the reply. One of them tells me they...
...Waffle House coffeeshop on Gloster Street, Jerry Rice groans, "I think there're a lot of people like me who just can't believe these guys are still running around in sheets. This is 1978." Walter Christian, a local insurance man, grumbles, "Why did they pick Saturday, anyway? Saturday is our busiest shopping day." Most people have a deeper fear. They are pretty sure there will be a shooting. "Life is cheaper down here than in the North," says Mel Blatt, who migrated to Mississippi from New York a few years back. "You don't have...
Sampson's style involves two basic steps. First, he must establish a close rapport with his patient and dispel any tension or distrust the patient may have. Sampson says he can gain this trust just about anywhere--in a coffeeshop or over a drink. But he says he feels this is a critical stage because he must make his patient believe that hypnosis is useful in a practical way, that it is natural and far removed from the talent show or the circus. Sampson then applies one of a variety of hypnotic techniques--he has a repertoire of about seven...
Ronee Blakley. The star of "Nashville" and the Rolling Thunder Revue appears at Passim Coffeeshop, Sunday, August 29. (You can also pick up the Passim acts live every Sunday at 2 p.m. on WCAS...