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ROBERTSON: People say rock 'n' roll is a combination of rhythm and blues and country-and-western, but really it's just blues and country. White music has always been very ricky-ticky, steppity-step, plunkety-plunk-banjo. You could always imagine a stiff collar behind it. Country music was played by white people, and blues was played by black people. And when it interchanged, it became something else, which is what Levon's father sings like. He sings blues with a twang, with that different accent, with a different bump on a different place...
...groups that follow the two dreams are as different as the dreams themselves. Paunchy suburban couples from Hartford and Los Angeles come to see Southern Hospitality. They are displeased with the increasing velocity of their modern life; and the sight of calm acres make them smile. They gladly plunk down their admission fees to see the remnants of the old days in Natchez and Richmond. They stay at hotels with names like The Plantation House, and go home convinced that heaven must be a little like the South...
...BOSTON COLLEGE ab r h rbi O'N'll 5 1 0 0 Rob'n 5 0 1 1 Amick 4 1 1 0 Fin'll 3 0 1 1 S'mon 4 0 1 0 Kitley 2 1 0 0 Plunk't 4 0 0 0 Maher 4 0 0 0 O'Br'n 3 0 2 0 Graham 0 0 0 0 Totals...
...better if, like many a son of a Stoughton by that juncture, you were nine beers gone) --stirred the minds and hearts of all the participants. Caught up as they were in the adolescent joy of it all, they nevertheless recognized in the incident a glimmer of the intellectual plunk Harvard was said to cherish...
...approaches teaching with the conviction that the worst enemy of art is boredom. "The child starts out with a dull teacher. Plunk, plunk. What should be a beautiful experience becomes drudgery. Terrible. We must keep them in flames." Piatigorsky keeps the fire aglow. Every week or so, about a dozen talented students in his master's class come to his big house in West Los Angeles and form a semicircle in his living room. Piatigorsky slumps his big frame (6 ft. 3½ in.) into an easy chair, and one by one the students play a solo...