Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where the New Lost City Ramblers try to recreate the music from the rural South in the 1920's and '30's, Country Cooking is creating new tunes and a new style using blue grass as a foundation. Unlike old-time music, blue grass has centered around the figure of one person, Bill Monroe. Both the instrumental and vocal styles which have dominated the form have followed the developments of Monroe and his apprentices. There have been a number of innovators in the past few years in the lyrical area, who have adapted material from the folk and rock fields...
...Cornell, where the Ithacans are incapable of playing a sport on anything that doesn't grow grass or freeze, losing has become a habit. After five blacks boycotted the squad last month to protest an alleged coaches' quota on the number of blacks in the starting lineup, any chance Cornell had of doing anything vanished...
S.C.L.C. officials have had little to say about Jackson's new organization. Most feel that PUSH will help black businessmen more than it will aid the poor. They plan to continue Breadbasket and the other programs that have made S.C.L.C. the largest direct-action, grass-roots civil rights group in the U.S. Its organizers, working mainly in Southern states, have managed to register black voters, successfully demonstrate for jobs, and generally lead the assault on racial injustice. But some sympathetic critics, like Reese Cleghorn, a white liberal formerly on the Southern Regional Council, feel that the organization relies...
...comic, Who Will Drug You? A Survivor's Handbook avoids moralizing. But it must be doubly instructive for youngsters to learn graphically the various symptoms of overdose victims who are having convulsions or just staggering, "confused and slow." And to learn that holding a joint of grass can get you 50 years in Texas...
Gilligan will make a decision this week. He has had plenty of advice and company. Columbus is a frequent port of call for Mark Shields, political director for the Muskie campaign and a former Gilligan aide. Robert McAlister, who has built an impressive grass-roots organization for McGovern that numbers 7,000 volunteers throughout the state, apprehensively watches these comings and goings from his own Columbus office. Not to be kept out of things, Hubert Humphrey was in the state last week for hearings of a Senate rural poverty subcommittee. Henry Jackson's men have also been eying...