Word: grams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS (A & M) are musical siblings of The Byrds, to which two of the founding Burritos (Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman) once belonged. Like The Byrds, the Brothers favor a nasal country style of folk-rock, with twanging, Nashville-style guitar picking and close-knit, churchy harmonies. They bounce along with sardonic glee in an ode to draft dodging called My Uncle, and commemorate the sorrows of unrequited love in a mock-dour lament, Juanita...
...frank talk among eight homo sexuals about their problems and attitudes. The latest and most bitter com plaints were raised early this year after a militant Negro guest on Manhattan's WBAI read an anti-Semitic poem on the air; a black militant on another pro gram said that Hitler "didn't make enough lamp shades" out of Jews...
...start, and the rate in other cities is not far below. But growing numbers of the nation's brightest law students are ignoring such generous offers and instead are choosing to teach, clerk for a judge, take a fellowship for further study, or work in a poverty pro gram. Some are drawn to such work be cause it offers a better chance of escaping the draft. But many are motivated by a genuine desire to help others. The fact that increasing numbers of senior partners are inclined to look on a year-long clerkship or work in a poverty...
...Gram Parsons dropped out of Harvard several years ago after only one semester here. He wears a Snoopy t-shirt, velvet pants, shiny white leather jeweled cowboy boots with pointy toes, and a Parisian blue leather jacket. That is to say, he looks like a rock 'n' roll star, too. Gram says he likes his clothes (Donovan has a song called "I Like My Shirt...
...back in, everyone started getting pretty drunk. Then their drummer took off a wandered out amongst the crowd of a couple of thousand kids to find a girl. He was back in five minutes with a girl in hipslung blue jeans and an ironed man's shirt. So then Gram Parsons, another Burrito (see page 4), says, hey that's neat, and gets up and goes out himself. He comes back in, like, three minutes with a blonde hair girl in black bellbottoms. And these girls know what they're going to do too; because the drummer, who's really...