Word: mahalia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...range of what he saw and heard -a limitation in other reporters, perhaps, but a vast license in Terkel's case. He was in Chicago when Dillinger was shot and in Selma in 1965. He has also elicited conversation from just about every notable from Bertrand Russell to Mahalia Jackson-and he is still at his listening post at Chicago's WFMT...
Hooker, 43, the man who replaces Granatelli, has a kind of Midas-in-reverse track record. Almost all of his business enterprises-including Minnie Pearl's Chicken System, Mahalia Jackson's Chicken System and the Royal Castle fast-food operation in Miami-have been unsuccessful. Southern aristocrat, he ran twice for Governor of Tennessee and lost both times. Said an earnest Hooker last week: "I really don't know the reason for the change...
...really groove on God this way," said one youth at Manhattan's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. To make up for the fact that the late Mahalia Jackson had died last January before she could sing a promised benefit concert at the cathedral, 4,000 admirers came to hear Duke Ellington read the Bible and Clara Walker and Delores Hall sing gospel tunes. Then they prayed and clapped happily in time with the music. Said Rutgers University Professor Samuel Proctor, who delivered the sermon: "It was joyful music, a joyful occasion, as joyful as Mahalia...
Initially, Mahalia had trouble getting her music accepted in larger, middle-class black churches because of its bumptious echoes of a life most of the parishioners preferred to forget. But as recordings widened her fame, the church doors opened. So, after World War II, did the ears and minds of a steadily increasing number of whites, who bought her records and listened to her weekly radio show. Thus she helped to prime the mass public for later gospel and soul singers...
...began appearing in classical bastions like Carnegie Hall and receiving invitations from presidents and prime ministers, Mahalia emerged as a symbol of the civil rights movement. In 1963 millions of TV viewers watched as, standing next to Martin Luther King just before his "I've Got a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial, she summed up the frustrations and aspirations of the movement with I Been 'Buked and I Been Scorned. But as star or symbol, she refused to take herself too seriously. "Ever since I began singing in the big concert halls," she said, "people have been...