Word: hark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Slava, slava [glory, glory]," echoed the cheers in Moscow's cavernous Palace of Congresses last week. The words ironically hark back to an anthem of another day that celebrated the power of the czars. As 4,963 Communist Party delegates rose in a standing ovation, General Secretary Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, 64, clasped his hands together like a prizefighter. The 24th Soviet Party Congress was nearly over, and the outpouring of praise for Brezhnev was by all odds the closest that the Soviet Union has come to the adulation of a single ruler since the collective leadership overthrew Nikita Khrushchev...
...characterize much of his work. Drifting is a lighter-than-air romantic ballad that could almost be sung by Crooner Johnny Mathis: "Drifting on a sea of forgotten teardrops/On a life-boat/Sailin' for your love/Sailin'home." Big-beat songs like Freedom and Nightbird Flyin' do hark back to the past, yet for once, there is no screech or reverberation to get in the way of the music. For the uninitiated-or for those who turned off when Jimi turned on before an audience like a black Elvis Presley-The Cry of Love should be sufficient proof...
...Hark, the land bids me tread no more upon...