Word: moans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most people feel that state governments are dull, and getting duller. To say this one does not have to agree with those would-be Cassandras who moan that the federal government is preempting all fields of activity and is putting the state governments out of business. The lack of creative planning by state governments is a result not so much of an inferior position in the federal system as of political circumstance...
...permitted himself to range from Bach to Mozart to Prokoviev to Odetta to the Missa Luba to Leadbelly. Running head-on against our various stock responses, he inevitably creates image-sound discords. For me such discords arose between the healing of a leper and a cotton-field blues moan, between the infant Jesus and Odetta's annoyingly mannered "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child...
...Tiny Alice. In this adaptation of James Purdy's novel Malcolm, he finds all his own vintage wines in another man's cellar. The trouble is that these wine bottles are now empty, and the wind whistles over them all evening with a low, monotonous, deadly moan...
...Mind to Ramble appeared a year and a half later, marking Rush's emergence as an autocthonous performer who is sensitive, controlled, and quietly versatile. Rush explains it, "I guess I did a little thinking and got involved with a few more women." In this album "Mole's Moan," a subtle instrumental written by Geoff Muldaur, contrasts with the grotesquely funny lyrics of "Big Fat Woman...
...financial man who carries the greatest weight at the White House right now. A favorite of Lyndon Johnson's, he almost daily uses his close contacts with Wall Street's bankers and Capitol Hill, cultivated during three years as Under Secretary. "Joe" Fowler's aides moan about his hard pace (usually 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.), which has them working on a dozen different projects, including planning this year's excise-tax reductions and cracking down on abuses of tax-exempt foundations. The first man Wilson sought out in Washington, Fowler agreed with the Prime Minister...