Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Making money," he said calmly. "And I dig it." He was the first person I had met who had a sane attitude towards the whole scene. I certainly never would have admitted that I was interesting in making money...
...genes as surely as in Lyndon Johnson's. The musicians wanted to make it, but the only possible way seemed to be to deny that they wanted to make it. All the accoutrements of the hip life in rock were reminders that you were first and foremost a Beautiful Person, with loyalties not to entertainment but to other Beautiful People. We played a gig in Bedford, New York for some society chick, who introduced me after our third set to -- zowie! -- George Plimpton...
...Richie Havens, unimpressive on records, enthralling in person, a man who manages, from the depths of his black being, to add another cutting edge to songs like "Blackbird" and "Just Like a Woman," those wrenching classics of our time. He pulled off once more that, by now legendary, feat in which he hums the whole of "A Little Help From My Friends" with the band going behind him. The hypnotic effect of the easily-remembered melody combining with Haven's encouragingly timed grunts and moans, accumulates till the entire audience is forced to sing-along without him but with...
Later that night, a Nixon staff member came up to me and asked how my talk with "the Chief" had gone. I said it had been all right and he paused, gazing vacantly toward a tangle of unloaded television equipment, and said, "He's really a rather human person, once you get to know...
...always knew that he would become chief executive when "circumstances made it available." The moment came when Valletta finally retired at 82 in early 1966. Valletta had groomed another technocrat for his job, but Vice Chairman Agnelli had other ideas. "I decided that I was the best person," he says, "and I took over...