Word: organization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...success has little to do with his boozy baritone and self-accompaniment on the electric organ. "I am not a singer," he says, "but an entertainer with an ability to read the mood of an audience." According to Ho's reading, his fans have left their inhibitions on the mainland and want a come-on-strong virility. They don't even mind his occasional bathroom humor. There is a pidgin Hawaiian expression, "Letta go your blouse," roughly meaning "anything goes." That is Ho's approach-and appeal...
...This one is about a nymphomaniac, which ought to give it a somewhat more eclectic appeal than the previous two. Trouble is, A Second-Hand Life is more a case history than a novel. Winifred Grainger can't take her mind off sex or, specifically, the male sex organ. But all she does is talk about it to Harry Harrison, her confidant and lifelong friend, who has a problem too. He can't stand the whole nasty business...
...News is not totally oblivious to a changing world. One of the reasons Publisher E. Earl Hawkes left the Hearst papers for the News in 1964 was a promise that he would not have to put out a "church house organ." Indeed, the News is sometimes at odds with conventional Mormon opinion. The paper got a lot of criticism when it ran a story about Interior Secretary Stewart Udall's criticism of the church position that Negroes are the descendants of Cain and hence ineligible for the priesthood. Himself a Mormon, Udall argued that Founder Joseph Smith held...
...begin at the beginning, we come in and see black and steel wreckage, rising to the flys in perfect proportions, a portrait of desolation. The orchestra--tympani, an organ, and an electric guitar--play a Greek sounding overture, a mixture of sirtaki and danse macabre...
...extend our sympathy to meet it half way. It uses a passionate form of music, rock and roll, so naturally and so well that it may be that long-awaited theatrical millenium--a real rock and roll musical. Bradley Burg's score, which, when it is not playing off organ beeps against tympani thumps, is airing subtle and poignant melodies, may well be the best music he has written...