Word: diddley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diddley and folk-singers Joe and Eddie will lead the festivities at the Freshman Jubilee Weekend, the Yardling and Michael D. Schlesinger '63 have revealed...
...pain. Nixon's "peevish post-election utterance," he replied, was "hardly calculated to advance" Republican Party unity. But Rocky also managed to put his finger squarely on the real Republican problem. "We don't have a Republican Party right now," he said. "We have 50 Republican parties." Diddley-Do. The distance between the extremes of the Republican Party is no greater than it is in the Democratic Party. But Democrats have always been able to reconcile their differences in the name of the party-partly because those Democrats with some of the most backward principles have been...
...Landon said last week, he was "a war hero who didn't know diddley-do about politics." At the moment, the G.O.P. is adrift, shorn of power and torn from its philosophical moorings. If it is to recapture power in Congress and the White House, it can do one of two things. It can permit itself to be captured by a magnetic leader who will sweep all before him, and pull a lot of Republicans in with him. Or it can develop, train and inspire thousands of candidates for all offices-local, state and national-who can honestly...
While the album Shout is great, many people consider Twist and Shout even better. In the Isley Brothers' early songs they improve upon--but nonetheless remain somewhat shackled by--the classical Bo Diddley syndrome, which needs no explanation here. Twist and Shout transcends. To risk oversimplification, one could say that the Isley Brothers began with the Twist and ascended...
...true Music Maker Meyer Davis-who wrote for the occasion a number that began "Dede loves to travel and dance all night . . ." Downstairs, under a sign reading DEDE'S PEPPERMINT LOUNGE, the belle of the ball and her peer group rattled the chandeliers keeping time to the Bo Diddley twist combo-and took their refreshments from a mobile hot-dog cart. Some Latino envoys-notably the uninvited-muttered sourly that the'affair was a "profanation" of the OAS building, but Nicaraguan Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa. dean of the capital's diplomatic corps, pronounced it "a perfectly beautiful...