Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blue Grass songs span the gamut of human emotion. From the melancholy love ballads so beloved in American popular music, Blue Grass stretches to deal with love from home and family; the life of the soil: the chronicling of great events in ballad form (e.g., "White House Blues," a song about the death of McKinley); the perils of such diverse occupations as truck driving, horse racing, railroading, mining, soldiering, and crime of all types; loneliness; the joy and humor of living and the pathos that goes along with it. The range of expression in Bill Monroe's songs and music...
Most of us live a particular combination of these or run the whole gamut, knowing them for subterfuge. At certain moments we, struggle through and beyond them...
...swish type or two audition-even a topless go-go dancer," says one of Parade's people. "But for the most part, those who auditioned were Disney-type kids: all-American kids." The average age of the girls is 19, the boys 21, and they run the gamut of honor-rollers, cheer leaders, glee-clubbers and yearbook editors. The cast has such a home-town flavor that Choreographer Miriam Nelson and others had to conduct travel clinics to help the kids adjust to life on the road. "Get eight hours of sleep a night," they were told. "Phone home...