Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killed, including Red Wolf's mother and sister. Finally, on Oct. 5, 1877, Chief Joseph surrendered to the cavalry in Montana's frigid Bear Paw Mountains with the words: "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever." Red Wolf became a cobbler, country musician and farmer. In 1967, he returned to Big Hole and turned the first shovelful of dirt for the visitor center at Big Hole Battlefield National Monument...
...Eglises on Dec. 11, 1969. He did not record the conversation or take notes, but later felt compelled to reconstruct their conversation. Writes Malraux in his preface: "With surprise I found out that we know of no dialogue between a great historical figure and a great artist-painter, writer, musician. We have no better knowledge of Julius II's dialogues with Michelangelo than of their loud quarreling. Nor of those between Alexander the Great and the philosophers. We are astonished that Voltaire did not report his with Frederick the Great...
Just and Unjust. The two losers in the case came to the court from opposite ends of the country and different ethical viewpoints. Guy P. Gillette, a rock musician from Yonkers, N.Y., was ready to fight for the U.S. in the event of an attack or help in any United Nations peace-keeping mission. But Gillette, now 25, refused induction because, he said, his humanist views forbade him to take part in the "unjust" Viet Nam conflict...
...guitar and Zachary Wiesner, son of M.I.T. Provost Jerome Wiesner, on bass, the group was soon able to earn something like $12 a night. Despite its low income, it was quite a good band. What it proved while it lasted was that Taylor had somehow evolved into an accomplished musician. Most of his songs?including Knocking 'Round the Zoo, Night Owl and Rainy Day Man, which were later recorded for Apple in the James Taylor album?were first written for the Flying Machine...
Offstage, James seems in many ways to be the average rock-'n'-roll musician. He wears regulation T shirts, regulation Levi's, regulation cowboy boots. He crosses living rooms or recording studios with the same ten-league strides he would use heading up a country road. He eats?and drinks?anything and everything that is put before him. Like his songs, he can easily be witty. But like his songs, he is also much turned in upon himself, rarely talkative, sometimes edgy, always haunted by the precariousness of human...