Word: dies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...message of this album. Blues are not as dead as most jazz, but John Mayall's crew sings and writes as if they were in imminent danger of extinction. ("It is time for a major blues crusade! Is it right that a great artiste should have to die for his music to be acknowledged?") The English have long proved that they can master American idioms, and Mayall is no exception. He can weep, holler and groan with the best, and though he pleads that his fan mail be sent to Godalming, Surrey, most listeners will wonder if it shouldn...
...logically requires opposition to all wars, regardless of political or moral considerations. The Spanish Republic was elected by the Spanish people and was defending its right to exist. The Israelis are in a similar situation. We do not know what the Vietnamese think except that those most willing to die for their beliefs seem to be on the other side...
...error. Huelga! is not a film about Mexicans working in California. It is a film that depicts a struggle to improve the wages and working conditions of U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. They are among the more than 6,000,000 Mexican American citizens who pay taxes, fight and die in Viet Nam and send their children to U.S. schools...
...palace complex, with its graceful red and gold buildings and pagoda roofing, its grounds of tall shade trees and frangipani, and its collections of bleu d'Hué porcelain. It was the most beautiful section of Hué still standing. It was also an eerie place to die, and its Communist defenders evidently decided to get out while they could. They left behind an unexploded shell near the fragile imperial throne, a cache of rifles and ammunition, and the carcasses of a horse and a dog, which they had slaughtered for food...
...also systematically starved ("The fish soup is bitter and floating with eyes. I swallow the soup, eyes and all"), but he was not allowed to die because his jailers persisted in the hope of extracting a confession from him "so that we may be sure you have learned to respect the Soviet Union." Wynne never gave them that satisfaction, and was finally exchanged for a Soviet spy in British hands. A tale such as his resounds far louder than the hosannas of the Soviets' 50th-anniversary celebrations...