Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MORNING AGAIN (Elektra). This is folk without folksiness. Paxton's trimmings may sometimes be countrified or traditional, but in this, his fourth LP, his essence emerges as urban and contemporary. When he writes a talking blues, it is about pot-smoking platoons in Viet Nam who smell "like midnight on St. Marks Place" (in Manhattan's hippie East Village). Appropriately, style and melody take second place in his songs to the compressed sophistication of his lyrics. Somewhat world-weary and very world-wary, they capsule the Paxton mixture of soft sympathies and hard ironies. Among the best...
...used your list on Election Night. By midnight, enough states were in to make it apparent that, while the vote was to be close, the states were falling into line just as you had determined. Accordingly, I went to bed, unlike most other bleary-eyed Americans...
French film makers frequently treat sex as a farce, and Swedes as a midnight-sun ritual. But for the Germans-ah, the Germans-it seems to be a subject to be explained...
...fleet of trucks rumbled out of National Homes Corp.'s prefabrication plant in Lafayette, Ind., shortly after midnight, laden with six-ton sections of ready-to-live-in housing. Their destination was a Chicago ghetto 125 miles away. Less than 24 hours later, tall cranes had plucked the sections from the trucks and stacked them into eight two-story, four-bedroom homes ready for occupancy...
Candidates for Class Committee must notify their House Election Committee by midnight Friday and the election will be Tuesday. The marshals and committeemen elect a class secretary, a treasurer and two class agents from each house...