Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blend of jazz and gospel, with a glossy Stan Kenton sound and a chorus singing Sonny's simple lyrics-about peace and freedom, with a little protest thrown in. His career began in Cincinnati, where he wrote his first song before he was eight. Through a draft-board mix-up in 1943, Sonny was tapped for the Marines when he was only 14, got out, then served in the Navy from 1945 to 1948. By the time he was discharged, he had become a good clarinetist and saxophonist, as well as a good lightweight boxer. He settled in south...
...black section of the T. V. room. He refuses to be broken by solitary, by being kept caged twenty-three-and-a-half hours a day in an eight foot cell. He refuses, literally, to eat shit-for the white inmates in charge of food mix urine, feces and ground glass into the black inmates' dinner. He refuses to pretend to the parole board that he has become a "good boy." He refuses to hide his feelings about prison and those in authority from the eyes of the censor of his letters. He refuses to lie to his parents...
...there had been the day before. It seemed strange that Thurmond could come to Hartford and deliver the kind of speech that reaches the Northeast only on news reports; it seemed geographically out of place, as though the deep-South words and the New England air ought not to mix...
...Furthermore." Buckley said, "segregation is not isolation. Mann simply can't mix with the other prisoners. He can still have visitors, mail, and food...
Atlanta's Fifth Congressional District has all the elements that Vice President Spiro Agnew wants to mix into Republican election victories. There are the resentful white workers in automobile assembly plants, middle managers worried about inflation, and old-time gentry upset over the erosion of their ancient values. The Fifth also has a black minority (one-third of the voters) divided between slums as desperate as any city's, and a middle-class area of preachers and teachers centered around the Atlanta University complex. Now a black civil rights leader has a good chance to represent the Fifth...