Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reginald R. Isaac's, Norton Professor of City and Regional Planning, said yesterday that he is "unaware of any real changes in the Planning Department during the past two years other than ones resulting from Mr. Kilbridge's attempt to drive away faculty who were trained and experienced in planning...
...exception to this pattern is the appointment of the new Department chairman, Lawrence Mann," Isaac's said...
...choir lofts when he was five. Moving to Memphis a few years later, he began scrounging for work in black clubs, notably Curry's Tropicana and the Tiki Club. He did one-nighters at moonshine joints in towns like Greasy Corner, Ark., sometimes with his own group, Sir Isaac and the Doo-Dads. He spent one night sleeping on a crap table, one whole summer living in a junked...
Cult Hero. One night in 1967, Hayes and a Stax vice president got slightly looped at a party, and the next thing Hayes knew they were back in the studio. By the following morning, his LP debut as a singer, Presenting Isaac Hayes, was in the can. Nowadays, by contrast, a Hayes LP takes months to prepare-but, then, Stax is no longer presenting a singer, it is presenting a cult hero. Hayes' latest, the just-released
Back in Memphis, Isaac Hayes is a more secular hero, but nonetheless a hero. "Hey, Bubba," the white owner of a propane gas station calls as Isaac cruises by in his turquoise El Dorado. "You gotta give me an autograph for my daughter; she doesn't believe you used to work for me." Isaac signs, then nods to a friend: "I used to wash cars and mow the grass around here...