Word: paul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...premonition about Jimmy Carter's descent on the Father of Waters last week. From the averted faces and cold shoulders of the poll readers in Washington, the President escaped by steamboat to the smiles and welcomes of Middle America. His seven-day, 660-mile journey from St. Paul to St. Louis was a vacation both officially and in the sense that many politicians find campaigning a vacation from the cares of the office. Unmistakably, Carter was campaigning for reelection...
...wiry fellow hauling clubs on this summer's pro tour looked to be your average caddy: suede shoes, mottled spectacles, blue sun cap. But Paul Groll, 32, quietly claims to be an emissary from an ultrasecretive religious cult that is-quite literally-outlandish...
...four walls is the street musicians' major incentive. "I just wanted to do music without any kind of reviews, sales pitches, verbiage or anything-just music," says John Thomas, who plays folk music and Bach on his six-string guitar for strolling office workers in Washington. Boston Cellist Paul Stouthamer senses that "people are revolting against mechanical power. They're looking for a cello, they're looking for a flute...
COLLECTED STORIES: 1939-1976 by Paul Bowles Black Sparrow; 417pages; $14 hardcover, $6 paper...
...Paul Bowles is a Renaissance man born into an age that applauds specialization. Doing several things very well indeed has, paradoxically, brought him less public acclaim than he might have received had he stuck to one. Bowles, 68, has been a distinguished composer; in 1947 Musician Virgil Thomson called him "America's most original and skillful composer of chamber music." He has written music for the stage, particularly for the plays of his friend Tennessee Williams. He has also been a tireless collector of folklore and legends, especially from Morocco, where he has lived on and off since...