Word: lifeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good case that Ochs did too. Phil Ochs went down slowly, painfully, and the actual moment of his death only confirmed what Ochs had guessed from the evidence of Chicago, or Kent State, or Chile. And by the time Ochs actually made his final break, the parts of his life that might have made his death the tombstone of his time had long since withered away...
Ochs wrote about her, and Billie Sol Estes, and the Vietnam war, and John Kennedy. As journalism student in college he sang the news the papers weren't printing. Yet his first three records sold less than 70,000 copies. Ochs finished his life never reaching the heart of the country his songs sought to transform...
Eliot's biography captures the tragedy of Ochs' life as well as anything written about him yet. It does what biographies are supposed to do; it provides a detailed account of Ochs' life from beginning to end. Through Phil Ochs' life Eliot tries to capture the essence of the '60s. However, it becomes the story not of the death of an era, but of its still-birth...
...Power and the Glory" Ochs claimed, "was the best song I will ever write." It wasn't, but it expressed his life's central theme: an abiding love for the United States and a lifelong hatred for the repression perpetrated in its name...
Best known for "A Report from the Beria Reservation," an account of prison life written during his first incarceration, Moroz taught modern Ukrainian history before his arrest in August...