Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soul is black and beautiful and like any black cat will tell you, baby-it's ours! Blue-eyed soul? The answer to your question-"Does this mean that white musicians by definition don't have soul?"-is simply and unequivocally yes. Obviously they can mouth the words and hit the notes, but, well, it's like Chaucer described the Prioress in The Canterbury Tales...
...window mannequins, overturned cornflakes boxes, scattered cigarettes and disarrayed lingerie, and began to stuff it all into a gutted TV set. With hammer and saw, glue and plaster, Scarfe concocted a many-armed "assemblage." For a final fillip, he managed to attach a serving of spaghetti- which was no mean trick, since the soft strands kept slithering off the plate under the hot photographic lights...
Outside jobs are, however, permitted. Although it can mean 16-hour work- days, moonlighting reservists are commonplace, as civilians struggle to adjust their incomes to military pay scales. "I took a pay cut of $300 per month," says Specialist Four David Waters, a steel-company billing clerk now with the 151st. "Did it hurt? You better believe it." For some reservists, call-up has knocked up to $10,000 off their annual earnings. Weekdays at 5 p.m., Airman First Class Mike Fields quits the 445th Military Airlift Wing's administrative offices at Dobbins Air Force Base outside Marietta...
Teachers must organize, agitate and, when all else fails, strike, argues Libby Koontz, because "communities recognize power and we must recognize the facts of life." Last year the N.E.A. staged strikes in Florida, Michigan and Albuquerque. She insists that the demand for higher pay does not mean that a teacher is more concerned about himself than his students. "We can be concerned about our kids-and well-paid at the same time. And we're not going to get able young people into teaching unless we improve conditions. All we're saying is that if the schools belong...
...pound (versus $9.30 for silk), will be found initially only in women's fine apparel, but eventually will be used in all types of clothing. For Du Pont, whose sales and profits, after a long lag, have shown an upturn this year, costly Qiana is not expected to mean an overnight boom. It will, however, take the company into a new area-and help offset sagging textile profits caused by overproduction...