Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first everyone thought this must be an important affair because Jock Semple, king of organized distance running in this area, was on hand at the starting line. It was good to hear at the starting line. It was good to hear Semple cursing in his appealing Scottish accent...
...YEARS AGO, I went to the now-extinct Club 47 to hear Paul Butterfield. That same year, The Cream came out with a song written by a Mississippi bluesman, Skip Pames, called "I'm So Glad." And the Cream were on their way to success. The Rolling Stones had drawn thousands of screaming kids at The Boston Garden, singing such songs as "Little Red Rooster," a song sung by the Mississippi-origined bluesman, Howlin' Wolf, many years before. The Yardbirds had cut an album with the late blues harmonica player from Mississippi, Sonny Boy Williamson. The album sold well...
...Monday night, I went down to the Jazz Workshop to hear The Chicago Blues Allstars (a group put together by Muddy Waters to tour the country--Johnny Shines on guitar, Shaky Walter Horton on harmonica, Sunnyland Slim on Piano, Willie Dixon on bass, and Clifton James on drums), a rare collection of great individual artists who grew up in the south and later moved to Chicago. Shaky Walter and Johnny Shines met in Memphis after Johnny Shines had travelled and played with one of the greatest and most innovative blues people, Robert Johnson (who was killed...
...casual friendships that are one of the millstones around the Cliffie's neck. Watch out for casual friends! Your casual friend is the girl who tells you she is about to start piano lessons or the girl who shows you the new boots she's bought, the girl you hear has just gotten an A on her anthropology paper or the girl who had four dates in one day. You don't play the piano, you don't have new boots, you don't get A's on your papers, you don't have four dates...
Competitiveness and the making of comparisons are diseases of the imagination that come from being surrounded by people you see in bits and hear about in pieces. You can't look too long at anyone in a dorm; you have to keep circulating. You have to avoid real participation in the other people's lives; the way you do it is by talking. One would think that among all the talking going on in a Radcliffe dorm there must by the laws of probability be some of the stuff called intellectual conversation, though no one's really sure what that...