Word: englands
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Wilson's experiment suggests that extra inches are available to anyone who achieves increasing degrees of success, on campus or off. But apparently the success must be of considerable dimension. For even when he was Professor England, the visitor's estimated height still fell more than half an inch short of his actual height...
...beginning. Aretha embarked on a remarkable year. She collected four more gold single records, sold a total of 1,200,000 albums, won two Grammy awards for record performances, and was cited by Billboard magazine as the top female vocalist of 1967. She toured Europe and was hailed in England as the new Bessie Smith?the first (1894-1937) of the great blues belters. Ray Charles called her "one of the greatest I've heard any time." Janis Joplin, 25, probably the most powerful singer to emerge from the white rock movement, ranked her as "the best chick singer since...
...white musicians by definition don't have soul? A very few Negroes will concede that such white singers as Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee have it, and Aretha also nominates Frenchman Charles Aznavour. A few more will accept such blues-oriented whites as the Righteous Brothers, Paul Butterfield, and England's Stevie Winwood?largely because their sound is almost indistinguishable from Negro performers'. But for the most part, Negroes leave it up to whites to defend the idea of "blue-eyed soul," whether by the criterion of talent, experience or temperament. Janis Joplin argues it this way: "There...
Fellow Prisoners. Russell's chronology begins with his imprisonment for pacifism in England during World War I, a subject about which he is willing to jest: "My fellow prisoners seemed to me in no way morally inferior to the rest of the population, though they were on the whole slightly below the usual level of intelligence, as was shown by their having been caught." It ends with his virtual banishment from American academia during World War II, when C.C.N.Y. reneged on its commitment to him because of his reputed permissive attitudes about sex. This Russell finds no laughing matter...
...Lowry died in England at 47 after one of his legendary drinking bouts. The coroner's euphemism-"misadventure"-seemed curiously apt. Yet Lowry's struggle with his demons (including a suicide attempt in 1946) had been more productive than was generally known. Among three unfinished novels, six or seven unpublished stories and hundreds of poems, he left 705 pages of typescript, which Lowry's second wife, Margerie Bonner Lowry. and Editor Douglas Day have now wrestled into book form...