Word: gets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fundamentalist following so far remains overwhelmingly white and heavy with farmers, blue-collar workers and small businessmen. He cannot get too far out in front of them politically. That may not be a problem. On issues, he says, he has always been conservative down the line. Asked if he could recall a single instance in which he had ever taken what would be considered the liberal side of an important public question, he thought for a moment, chuckled and replied: "No, I guess there is no way you're going to be able to clean...
...agree with his reading of the Bible-do not vote. "If there is one person in this room not registered," he tells the pastors, "repent of it. It's a sin." That message must be repeated in every congregation, he says. The order of the day must be: "Get them saved, baptized and registered...
...Kids Are Alright were youth anthems in the best sense, brash and savage declarations of independence. Even the rock opera Tommy, with its dazzling music locked in perpetual combat with a convoluted narrative, passed the palm to the audience as Tommy sang to his followers: "Listening to you I get the music/ Gazing at you I get the heat." Reverse the title of Who Are You, and the point comes clear; listen to Music Must Change, one of the album's best cuts, and Townshend's fusion of music and audience is complete: "Deep in the back...
...like a testing of the waters that turned into a tidal wave. Word is that The Who will be back in the States come December, making a wider swing along the East Coast and through the Midwest, and demonstrating that they can still sing "Hope I die before I get old" with passion and impunity. What a way to bring...
...intensely speculative, ascetic man, Erickson always sets out, as in the Vancouver courthouse, to build imaginatively around the activities of the people who will inhabit the building. Says he: "We must think of our cities as places to live in and enjoy rather than places to work in and get out of." He is a master of scale and placement and insists on a "dialogue between space and setting," in which site determines form. A handsome, blue-eyed bachelor, he is of Swedish-Irish descent, and both dour and mischievous strains can be detected in his designs...