Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorite authors include James Agee, William Faulkner and Dylan Thomas, though most recently Carter has concentrated on politics, philosophy, history, foreign affairs, taxation policy and the like. His tastes in music range from Dmitri Shostakovich to Dylan. While politicking, his energy and concentration are legendary. Campaigning recently in Mississippi, he shook the hand of a department-store mannequin. He recovered gracefully by quipping to an aide: "Better give her a brochure...
...MORE SERIOUS SONGS on the album are a little more even in quality. He gives a plaintive and evocative rendition of Jessie Winchester's "Mississippi You're on My Mind", a song which is all the more moving because Winchester is an exile in Canada, having left the U.S. to avoid the draft. The rich images he paints are those of someone who will never see his home again...
...Ford, draws most of his support from voters who are confident about America's future. The soft accent, the moderation on issues, the emphasis on "Trust me," even his fundamentalist religiosity, seem attuned to the times. "Jimmy Carter is a positive and upward and loving candidate," observes former Mississippi Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Gil Carmichael. "His spiritual issue is probably one of the best gut issues." Yet Carter's course is also hazardous. He has so stressed his honesty, freshness and reasonableness that any slip into a clear deception or another heated controversy might seem a betrayal. His "ethnic...
...life as he had during the '60s--singing at benefits, performing in small concert halls--but "the words weren't coming anymore." Two years ago, at the Performance Center in Cambridge, Ochs had no new songs, only reworked versions of old standards. For "Here's to the State of Mississippi," Ochs substituted "Here's to the State of Richard Nixon...
...after the suburban straphangers until it was too late. By contrast, Ford worked the fences and the police barricades as if he were L.B.J. in his prime. He deftly handled questions about everything from the Nixon pardon to the problems of Lock and Dam 26 on the Mississippi River at Alton, Ill., to civil rights for homosexuals ('I have always tried to be an understanding person as far as people are concerned who are different from myself). He played very well in Peoria-by 63%-and just about everywhere else...