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...most famous of the Delta Blues singer-guitarists are Robert Johnson, Son House and Skip James. These men played unamplified steel string guitar and sang about everything from bad women to Boll Weevils and droughts. Many of the songs of these people are sung by such contemporary supergroups as Cream, who have done Johnson's "Four Until Late," and "Crossroads" and James' "I'm So Glad." This Blues style reached its peak of popularity in the 1920's and 30's. Though many of the Blues men of this era are dead, their music was revived in the late fifties...
Obviously, if community action organizations were to represent the interests of the poor, then the poor themselves would have to participate in their formation--hence the famous formula for maximum feasible participation of community residents in all phases of community action programs. Moynihan points out rather interestingly that this formula entered the War on Poverty draft legislation not out of considerations of big city politics, but rather as a device to ensure that community action funds would reach the black poor in the South rather than their white overlords. whatever its origins, however, maximum feasible participation soon became the kingpin...
...NEWS BOARD does the day-to-day writing for the paper, and News Board candidates learn quickly what it takes to write a big story. You'll lose a little sleep if you join the news board comp, but you'll meet famous people and see your stories in print right away...
...wide-screen way that he made famous as boss of 20th Century-Fox, Spyros P. Skouras once wired a troubled friend: "NO MARINER EVER DIS TINGUISHED HIMSELF ON A SMOOTH SEA." Now, at 75, the man who launched Titanic is in the midst of a real-life sea story. Skouras and his 45-year-old son, Spyros S., are becoming maritime moguls, and the sailing seems smooth...
...CLICHE that haunts the University of Wisconsin from September to June says culture starts on the coasts and eventually filters in to the midwest. Some products of Wisconsin's famous cheese and milk go East to college and look for their culture; the rest go to Madison and wait for it to come. Last week, culture, politics, and 2000 National Guardsmen came to Wisconsin, but they arrived in a typically...