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...Harper and his sax. Odetta moaning about how it's gonna feel "when your biscuit roll is gone." Mandrill's man in the big straw hat talking about 'Oooh shake some boo-die. Get it on. Right on." Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers making the transition from a mellow "summertime and the livin' is easy" to some Latin and the livin...
...followed next fall by a month-long American tour. For both events, Cleo manages to be her own worst promoter. "When I hear myself, I don't like it," she says. "I can't get out what I hear in my head. What comes out is mellow and soft; yet what I try to achieve is an 'edge' to my voice." To her avid public in Britain, Europe and Australia (which includes Britain's Princess Margaret), a more apt description can be found on the working title of Cleo's newest album, which...
...Jefferson explained. Not so long ago they used to practice that art in this city. Harry Truman, with all his independence and gutsiness, went through exhaustive consultations with Pentagon and State Department officials, down to the third levels of authority, before he committed forces to Korea. Alben Barkley, the mellow Kentuckian Senator and Vice President, was heard to rip into a Democratic colleague who kept attacking Republican leaders. Night after night Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson would go down to Eisenhower's White House breathing partisan fire, but something magic always happened when the old General uncorked the bourbon...
...talking, the Johnson who wants to be remembered as the builder of monuments in the fields of social legislation and civil rights. It is part of the American tradition that a former President, no matter how bitterly controversial his incumbency, is permitted as a last public role that of mellow elder statesman...
...There seems to be a streak of self-identification in the author's portrait of his hero, David Powlett-Jones. An erstwhile young reformer, Powlett-Jones endures two marriages, a love affair, assorted births and deaths, and the splutterings of the board of governors to become a mellow headmaster who puts his faith "in tradition, in ripeness, habit and continuity...