Word: dillard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...renaissance of black cultural pride that began to take place in the mid-1960's. The proponents of this school--Imamu Baraka, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks--maintain that Black English is a well-structured dialect that is a derivation but not a corruption of Standard English. J.L. Dillard's Black English is the first attempt to take a systematic linguistic historical look at the subject and as such offers several important insights...
...Sometimes a gift has a string openly attached. Last week Dillard Munford, Georgia finance chairman of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, was offered $20,000 from a businessman who said he wanted appointment to a federal board in Washington. Munford promised to "see to it he met the right people," but "then he'd have to stand on his own merits." The donation was accepted...
...Eagles. "The News Buffalo Springfield." Even with the success of the Springfield offspring Poco, Loggins and Messina, the time is still somehow ripe for another Buffalo Springfield. And Eagles seem to fit They're torn from the Los Angeles tradition. The four members have done time with the Bvrds Dillard Clark as well as LA's second wring folk rock hand the ones that never made it past saloons. Scraped from these ruins each member knowing another from less successful days. Eagles have one man in common. David Gellen head of Asylum Records Geffen sent the band to play four...
...songs on side two more nearly typify Eagles music. "Train Leaves Here This Morning," originally a Dillard & Clark Expedition song, aims at a country sound, particularly through a slide guitar solo, so soft and laden with vibrato, that it seems to be pedal steel. But its words are western. The same can be said for "Earlybird" whose "The eagle flies alone. He is free," is par for Eagles's songwriting. Musically, the simplicity of the bass line, the thin sound of drums, and in "Earlybird: the banjo and the faraway slide guitar, lend to a total sound that is remarkably...
...article on Black English [Aug. 7]: I am sorry to say that the theories of my friends and colleagues Joe Dillard and Bill Stewart, as reported in your article, contain a number of inaccuracies that may mislead your readers...