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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fuel that keeps them going when they don't find it." He has a huge vocabulary, which sometimes slices into the rough. "Don't misconcept this," he will say, or "That guy is a man of great introspect." But his favorite adjective is "beautiful," his favorite noun is "pal," and his favorite phrase is "beautiful, pal, beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Big Hustler Jackie Gleason | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...blues is a collective noun. All explanations of blues seem to begin "The blues is...." Perhaps it should be left at that. Verve has seen fit to release the last recording sessions of Big Bill Broonzy on three single albums. A big voice, a big guitar, and a big rhythm often serve to hide a lack of feeling in a blues singer, but here they serve only to enhance an already powerful emotive force. The Reverend Gary Davis, blind "street singer," has a new release on the Prestige Bluesville label, which is a total gas because the man plays guitar...

Author: By Merry W. Maisel, | Title: New Trends In Folk Music | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

French Troubadour Yves Montand has a bedroom voice in a truck driver's body. His throaty baritone undresses every noun, verb and parenthetical clause that comes slithering past his lips. With hips cocked, eyes squinted against some inner sunburst of passion, and hands expressively molding the air, Montand is one of the most potent love potions ever poured across the footlights. But Montand has more than sex appeal buttoned under his dark brown open-necked shirt. He is a one-man theater of the performing arts, an expert mimic, a clown, a barometric actor who can shift moods, weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: French Eros | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

Father: If you're going to associate with intelligent people, you're going to have to remember that "still" is a noun and not a verb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Family Schizophrenia | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...three volumes of his Actuelies 23 essays he wanted preserved English. Sadly, actuelie is one those words that cannot be Its literal meaning is or "contemporary", and it notes as well "immediate", "near hand", "timely". It is an and as translator O'Brien in his introduction, the of the noun is for ambiguity...

Author: By Jonathan R. Walton, | Title: Camus' Politics: A Door in the Wall | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

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