Word: druids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...song had a rawness and currency that it has since lost in the thousands of times it has been replayed, years later, at white people's parties, and on that afternoon it threatened to crash everything in the city to the ground. By the time the bus reached Druid Hill Avenue, however, the song was over, and all was still...
...cliches of opera-as-usual have been delighted by Caldwell's frequent and highly plausible new looks at old friends. Violetta in Traviata emerges not as the usual high-class tart with a heart of gold, but as an older woman resigned to her fate. The Druid priestess Norma? An albino, whose white hair and skin made her people think she was possessed and therefore a powerful leader...
...Murphy was picked up in a car outside his two-story brick home in the Druid Hills section of Atlanta by a heavy-set white man, ostensibly for a visit to the man's attorney for more discussion about the oil. Instead, once Murphy was in the car, the mysterious "benefactor" pulled a gun and announced: "Mr. Murphy, you have been kidnaped...
...have to track him down on nearby ski trails or golf courses or, at the very least, up on the roof in a glass-enclosed loft where he likes to watch eagles through a telescope. "There is no artifice to John," says Folk Singer Tom Paxton. "John is a Druid, a tree worshiper, an elf, a sprite." Just the man, perhaps, to take the curse off music that makes people feel good...
Abigail raises chickens by herself; she's considered crazy by some, a witch by others. She isn't one to deny either allegation, recognizing the Druid blood in herself as something beautiful. Abigail teaches Dawes of the importance of being aware of his family history and of his own personal history. When Dawes asks her about his great-great-grandfather she says something that seems to reduce their existence to its essence...