Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passing a joint to another in a sidecar. That picture is almost a visual description of the music on the inside, a very gentle blend of C and W and rock. Generally the term Country and Western calls up images of excruciatingly sentimental lyrics with a fiddle and banjo contest going on in the background. But the arrangements on Expedition (songs written mostly by the musicians Gene Clark and Doug Dillard) combine the more subtle components of each genre, ending up with a very relaxed, tension-free sound...
...this afternoon at Providence, the emotional tone of the contest will be markedly different. For the first time since 1958. a Harvard football team will be doomed to a losing season if it cannot defeat Brown, and for the first time in several years, the Bruins have enough raw material to fight a Yoviesin squad on even terms...
...Brown contest is a must game, and for a squad that has always unconsciously regarded the Bruins as somewhat of an emotional breather, it will be difficult to prepare psychologically for the sort of enthusiasm with which Brown will approach the game...
ADAPTATION-NEXT. Two one-acters, both directed with a crisp and zany comic flair Elaine May. Miss May's own play, Adptation, is the game of life staged like a TV contest. Terrence McNally's Next has a middle-aged man undergoing a series of humiliating pre-induction examinations...
Coup Rumors. The contest for South Viet Nam could also be lost on the political front. Last week Saigon was once again alive with talk of a coup. The speculation started when South Vietnamese Senator Tran Van Don invited some 300 Vietnamese to his home in Saigon's Cholon section to toast the anniversary of the 1963 overthrow of the Diem regime. Among the guests was General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, a popular leader of the 1963 plot and an old Thieu rival, who is regarded as the possible leader of a coalition government. Asked about his plans...