Word: phils
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Phil Ochs. He sang at the Chicago Seven trial. He's been dragged out for every rally from here to Golden Gate Park. Phil Ochs must be very tired now, because not only has he weathered years and years of fruitless radical protest, and the anti-war movement almost from the beginning, but his vehicle--guitar-strumming folkiness--has an introverted, "I am pained" aspect that makes his mission doubly exhausting. Indeed, he didn't show up at a gig in Lenox last weekend, and reports have it that Ochs is highly difficult to get along with nowadays. Maybe...
Sabby Lewis and a fifteen-piece orchestra are at Sandy's Jazz Revival at 54 Cabot Street in Beverly this weekend. The orchestra has among its many talents, Phil Wilson, local trombonist extraordinaire, and vocalist Mae Arnette...
Last week a Senate subcommittee heard a plea by Agriculture Under Secretary J. Phil Campbell that Congress put off action until his department worked out a reform plan for the grain trade. But several lawmakers have already proposed remedies. Iowa's Clark, among others, has called for creation of a semi-independent grain-inspection agency that would have strong enforcement powers and be less exposed to "possible economic or political pressures or administrative indifference...
...near-flawless fielding and clutch hitting. A relentless belligerence earned him his nickname and triggered some of baseball's most violent brouhahas, notably a game-stopping 1953 free-for-all at Busch Stadium that began when Courtney, then playing for the old St. Louis Browns, spiked Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto while trying to stretch a single. "There's the meanest man I ever met," said his Browns teammate Satchel Paige. "I'm glad he's on my side...
...academic specimens around here who wear ties and sit behind desks, or infest libraries, or say 'No Comment' just don't make for exciting copy. Kearns is emotional and plaintive, Goodwin is garrulous and familiar, and Glikes is intense and a little self-righteous. They all call me Phil, they all love to go off-the-record and whine about the other characters in this story, no matter how minor, and they all have an axe to grind. And they're all trying to manipulate me by pretending to be utterly candid...