Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moral aura around country music becomes clearest in its reaction to rock-n-roll. Until Elvis, white musicians came to the Grand Ol Opry (a converted church still using the original pews) in Nashville to learn country music's own particular styles and techniques. But with Hound Dawg, using borrowed blues lyrics and Elvis's own brand of hard twang country steel guitar, all the walls between black and white music collapsed...
...What occupies his time is repeated and virulent attacks on youth, who are portrayed throughout as spoiled, selfish, loveless and unloving brats. There are a couple of cursory attempts to explain young people's interest in drugs (Mommy takes lots of pills, Daddy is a booze hound), but they all smack of smug rationalization. In the midst of all these dismal goings on are several fine actors yelling to get out. Wallach is brutal and forceful as the father; Hal Holbrook, playing a next-door neighbor, is remarkably moving against overwhelming odds; and the young actors-Deborah Winters, Stephen...
Black Europeans. Most controversial of all is the widespread practice of polygamy, which most of the young women of the cities vehemently oppose. "If my husband took another wife, I would hound him to death," says one Nairobi university graduate. "But anyway, he wouldn't." A surprising number of educated women seem to disagree. Reasons Grace Onyango, Kenya's first African woman to be elected to Parliament: "If a man can handle 15 wives at one time, he can probably lead a nation." In any case, few African males favor abolishing the practice. As a Kenyan chauffeur puts...
...vigorous debate. One of the most vociferous opponents is a Democrat who is frequently sympathetic to Administration causes. But North Carolina's Sam J. Ervin Jr. has long been convinced that much of the measure is "as full of unconstitutional, unjust and unwise provisions as a mangy hound dog is full of fleas." Meanwhile the governing board of the American Bar Association, after a special meeting in Chicago, expressed reservations about parts of a separate bill aimed at subduing the organized underworld. Originally devised by another Democrat, Arkansas's John McClellan, the mobster measure was expanded with...
...Fabian was known for his ability to make hits out of both sides of a new release. Perhaps his most memorable success in this department was "Hound Dog Man" and its flip side, which...