Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are now and have been for several years three overwhelmingly strong influences in black Rock and Roll. Foremost, of course, is Motown. For breadth of talent, monetary and technical resources, cross-cultural impact and sheer volume of sales, Berry Gordy's corporation is IT. In second place and trying harder is Atlantic, the parent company of the Stax-Volt labels. And all by himself, James Brown, the Culture-Hero Who Walks Like A Man, occupies a discrete, if not always discreet, position that for our purposes can be labeled number three...
When Jill O'Hara, a girl with a voice that is a strange cross between country-western twanginess and Dionne Warwick inflection, sings about "Knowing When to Leave" a lover, music and rhythm change as the character's thoughts move form a detached statement of principle ("Knowing when to leave won't ever let you reach the point of no return/ Fly") to an upbeat assertion of hope ("Foolish as it seems/ I still have my dreams") to an angry stream of abuse ("Keep your eyes on the door/ Never let it get out of sight/ Just be prepared when...
...that, they never saw one child in satisfactory nutritional condition in any of the camps they visited. Mass feedings must be made under the most difficult of situations: distribution centers and refugee camps are bombed and strafed if any large numbers of people are visible in the daylight. Red Cross insignias are singled out for special attention by Nigerian bombers. Mayer saw one European engaged in working on the Biafran side of the war front carry 117 dying children in his truck to a hospital in a single night...
...outstanding cross-country effort by Steve Hinkle, who finished fifth, could not prevent Harvard from slipping into seventh place in that event...
...even if coed living were not approved, merger has some graces beyond corporate finance. The end of cross-corporate billing for interhouse meals should allow freer dining; combining scholarship endowments would hugely increase Radcliffe's small scholarship fund...