Word: moments
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Bond is one of the 11 black members of the Georgia legislature (out of 270 seats). He feels that there is still a great deal of work to do as Representative of Georgia's 136th district, located in Atlanta. At the moment he is trying to get foundation money to do voter education and registration work in Atlanta and also set up a communications network among black southern politicians throughout the South. Bond believes that a great deal of progress can be made rapidly since, as he says, "as opposed to the North, we can see far more clearly what...
This is not to say however that Jeff Beck, for all his domineering guitar activity, would be anything without the consistent and helpful backing that he gets from the rest of his group. Leaving aside Nicky Hopkins for the moment, it is clear that Waller, Stewart, and Ron Wood, who plays bass, are above average as performers in their own right, and superb in combination with Jeff Beck...
Every time there is a breahtless moment as Beck deliberately lengthens the melody, playing furiously, leaving the audience overhanging, teetering until the rest of the group climaxes with a rumbling flourish...
Sometimes, however, the improvisation can be precarious. Beck has admitted that it is quite possible for there to be two different basic progressions going at the same time, but he and Hopkins both agree that their predominant guideline is whether something "sounds right at the moment. We don't worry about its purity or anything...
...Rise of American Civilization, by 1927, the year when an unknown English professor named V. L. Parrington published his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Main Currents in American Thought. These men, writes Hofstadter, were the first "to make American history relevant to the political and intellectual issues of the moment." And, he might have added, the issues of the moment endured...