Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undoubtedly the weakest of these four sides is "Panama." There is a marked drag in the tempo as the piece progresses, the bass solo is poor, and the piano should never have happened...
...perennial reception given Jack Kirkland's earthy vehicle of the poor South is a sad commentary on American audiences. Somehow, in nine years, someone should have had the sense to stop the flow of "adult only" and "daring presentation publicity that has provided the abortion with packed houses. Yes people will be dragged to see the ramshackle spectacle once, but only the degenerate or perverted could have the wild-eyed desire to go back and see two and a half hours of unadulterated country ham again...
What happened in Chicago is a thing which we have so often been told "cannot happen here." It can happen here, it has happened here, and it will continue to happen here with increasing frequency and intensity until we poor deluded citizens wake up to the fact that long-continued, self-perpetuating power is evil in its very essence, no matter who wields it, no matter how idealistic their motives, and no matter how world-shattering the war that drugs us into feeling that any one man or any one party is indispensable...
...speech before some 370 be-orchided New Jersey socialites, he found a new name for Franklin Roosevelt. Said he: the New Deal's "morals have never risen above the level of Robin Hood, who defended his thefts from the rich on the ground that he gave to the poor...
...were high [over Morocco's Atlas Mountains], . . . Down there lived sheep men-obscure mountain men who had never heard of a nebelwerfer or a bazooka. Men at home at the end of the day in the poor, narrow, beautiful security of their own walls...