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...Charles's innovation brought waves of gospel talent into the blues field, and at the same time offered blues performers a chance to employ the climactic cadences and mythic ritual of black evangelism. Some of his more ardent followers adopted stage mannerisms in which they appeared to be seized by God; they tore off their clothes, called for witnesses, collapsed and rose up again. The bespangled James Brown's whirling, convulsive performances have even been analyzed as enactments of the Crucifixion...
...coach, Halas led the Bears to six N.F.L. championships and eight divisional titles, compiled a record of 321 victories against 142 losses and 31 ties. A master strategist, he perfected the T-formation, initiated the man-in-motion and the use of spread ends, was the first coach to employ movies for spotting mistakes and plotting plays. A superb judge of talent, he gave the game some of its brightest stars: Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, Sid Luckman, Gale Sayers. A tightfisted businessman, he was known to wrestle fans for the ball after extra-point kicks, and a player once complained...
...dancers from abroad were a pleasure to watch. But it would be hard to deny that American choreographers and the limber American bodies they employ, better reflect the concerns of the 20th century. Elsewhere, dance is all too often a carefully presented museum; in the U.S., it is one of the swinging arts...
...settle for far more limited steps-notably, a reversal by Congress of the 1967 freeze on the Aid for Dependent Children program, enactment of a provision to create 450,000 jobs for the unemployed in the coming year, and funding of President Johnson's three-year program to employ 500,000 of the jobless in private industry. "If there is no response," Abernathy said last week, "we shall not have failed. Congress and America will have failed...
According to Christian, Vappi agreed yesterday to work with Gopen in securing the black laborers he promised to employ. Vappi reportedly said he would need at least a day to work out the change with the unions involved...