Word: hillbillyism
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As the men inch forward toward their goal, the action stops to let each one run over in his mind a private snapshot album of The Ways Things Were. And over across the hill, the Japanese are doing the same. Every cliche is in its niche: the sensitive downy-cheeked...
Rock music, like jazz, derives in part from the blues, and this common heritage provides the basis on which rock is injecting itself into the jazz idiom (at the same time, of course, absorbing elements of jazz into its own idiom). Recent recordings by Ramsey Lewis, Cannonball Adderley and Gabor...
It's a real American success story, one nobody would begrudge. But reading about it is something else. Sadler and a cat named Tom Mahoney who, say the liner notes, "wrote down Barry Sadler's story," ramble on for page after page, 185 in all, managing to turn what could...
Hillbilly Opera. In discussing the search for order, teachers show how this theme is found in such works as Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, The Divine Comedy and Death of a Salesman. To help them understand the difficulties of achieving esthetic order, music students at Garden City have been assigned the problem...
For a while, Brumfield thought he didn't either. He prayed all the way to the wire ("I turned my eyes to heaven, and I said, 'Help me now, Lord, 'cause I need you.'"). At the finish, Kauai King was one-half length ahead of Advocator...