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...usually in 4/4 time but it can be fitted to other rhythm patterns as well. There is a Blues chromatism or Blues scale which has African origins and differs from the West European scale. In order to play the correct Blues notes it is necessary to bend or flatten certain notes. This is achieved in different ways on different instruments. On the guitar the Blues notes are played by bending the strings which raises the note up a quarter tone into the Blues scale...
...conservatives with his hard-line views on the war and on integration-although, as the son of an impoverished turpentine distiller from Gumville, he has voted frequently for Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs. His constituents were not unsympathetic 18 months ago when he proposed that the U.S. "flatten Hanoi and let world opinion go fly a kite." In 1948 he cried that Harry Truman's anti-lynching bill would "lynch the Constitution," and as late as 1956 was defining N.A.A.C.P as "the National Association for the Advancement of Communist Propaganda...
...anyone who tried to hold onto him. Many of the demonstrators pleaded with the soldiers to drag people out instead of clubbing them. But the soldiers evidently had orders to leave the removal of protestors to the Marshals; they were there only to hold the line and flatten anyone the Marshals decided to pick...
...walks away to play a rack and the circulation of people resumes. Uncle constantly circumnavigates the hall. He is a small, squat man who appears to be literally easier to flatten than knock over. He advances like a boxer, stopping before the more loud-mouthed, hence less important, kids to draw back his fist and flex his forearm. Violence diffuses through the room like the smoke, and it is easy to forget that the friendly shoves are shoves. Then maybe a drunk comes in. Vic says to the stranger, "Go now. That kid in blue is drunk. He's crazy...
...sections of Hanoi, even if many civilians die." Democratic Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Vance Hartke of Indiana called on Johnson to stop the bombing unilaterally. On the other hand, South Carolina's Congressman Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, urged the U.S. to "flatten Hanoi if necessary" and "to hell with world opinion." Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Richard Russell declared that Hanoi's "intransigence" left the U.S. with "no choice but to inflict greater punishment on the Communists...