Word: moans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case in Selma. And there is considerable precedent for the invocation of Section 333. On no less than 55 occasions have United States Presidents used Federal force to quell domestic violence after State officials proved unable or unwilling to act. But states-righters--and there are many of them--moan and wail about a "Federal Police Force" in any state. Their complaints must not make us lose sight of the real issue here: Will justice be administered in Alabama? And in any case, the mere presence of Federal power in that state does not mean that Federal officials would...
...face became gloomy, darkened by a rising inner cloud," Gilson later reported. "Then the Pope added in a violent tone, almost a cry: 'For some of them it is martyrdom. Yes, a sort of martyrdom. It seems to me that sometimes I hear a sort of moan, as if many voices were asking the church for liberation from the burden. What can I do? Ecclesiastical celibacy is not a dogma. It is not imposed in the Scriptures. How simple it would be: we take up a pen, sign an act, and priests who so desire can marry tomorrow...
Doffing his cowboy hat to the initial applause he proceeded to sing the best from every major songbag of rural America--he sang Leadbelly in his dialect, Blind Lemon Jefferson's Black Snake Moan (as dirty a blues as could be if one listens twice, but which Jack pretends is as clean as an Ivory-washed babe), Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie, Eric von Schmidt and a dozen other folk classics...
...magic emanates not from the song alone, but the man, whose every movement is classic, whose Western drawl is definitive, who can mug and joke, yodel and moan, tell a tall tale ("I don't believe in rebearsin' for recordings: and I never listened to them afterwards") so well that he has to explain that it was a slight fib after...
...Mercury). Shostakovich's late chamber works are better than his late symphonies. The eighth quartet, a secular requiem for the victims of Fascism, was written in 1960 and is daringly monochromatic: three of the five movements are largo, and the often-repeated main theme changes only from a moan into a sigh. Even the joyful sections seem to shift into a remembrance of gaiety long past. A subtle performance by the Borodin String Quartet, which the U.S.S.R. will send on a first visit to the U.S. in October...