Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like most members of the group, Janis cannot read a note of music. "We're not dispassionate professionals," Janis explains. "We're passionate and sloppy. I'm untutored native folk talent -I like that phrase, it's so pretentious." Her only regimen is to stay away from cold beer before singing and she refuses to worry about the punishment her rasping style inflicts on her vocal cords. When friends urge her to hold back in order to preserve her voice, she asks: "Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre just so I can sound...
...million contract for construction of the dam has been awarded to an international consortium led by the Oppenheimer's huge Anglo American Corp. of South Africa. The group also includes Siemens and Telefunken of West Germany, Compagnie de Constructions Internationales of France, plus Swedish and South African firms.* Financing will be entirely through foreign credits and loans arranged by the consortium. Part of the money will be spent on a new seaport at Cuama, on the Indian Ocean at the mouth of the Zambezi, which will be capable of handling 40,000-ton freighters. More millions will go toward...
...Losers in the bidding: a group led by the U.S.'s Morrison-Knudsen Co. and another formed around British companies, including English Electric...
...level of information in most American newspapers is insufficient, he explains. He says that "here, you have as perfect a system of secret control of your citizens as the Soviets have. It might be more sophisticated, but my people will not stand wire-tapping by a group like the FBI, in the future...
Many of those who went to Newport this year did not do so to listen to folk music, and of the ones who did, a significant group found themselves generally bored with what was offered. The people were hungry for electronic devices and instruments, for electric music, and whenever such music was offered it was eaten...