Word: oompah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is correct, one needs only to see the happy faces of coffee- house owners, guitar-and-banjo-makers, professional folksingers to verify the fact. Some people, including myself, will tell you folk music suffers from renaissance--the trios and quartets (which shall be nameless) begin turning out corrupt, oompah versions of perfectly good folk songs; no lover of folk musics enjoys hearing the lush, superfatted, slick results. The task of separating what we like from the phony folk music becomes more difficult all the time, anyway. Here, then, is a one- sided incredibly opinionated, narrow- minded demi-survey...
...Amid the oompah and the hoopla that made for good box office, both major parties had reached down deep to their roots to explain themselves. By challenging the past and the future, they brought both into better focus. By searching their souls and summoning their followers to sacrifices, the politicos-in some wondrous alchemy of the tired convention process-had provoked the nation into contemplation of its character, its purpose and its goals...