Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collection of lieder, arias and assorted other snippets gives a fair indication of Fischer-Dieskau's tal ent. He is a meticulous singer who never sloughs off a nuance or fuzzes an accent. Though his baritone is aptly described as dry rather than warm, he has range and power to spare. Lieder are his forte, but this disk demonstrates a thoroughgoing comprehension of opera as well...
FRANCO CORELLI: GRANADA AND OTHER ROMANTIC SONGS (Capitol). Corelli uses his miraculous equipment unstintingly. He never underestimates the power of a note, especially a high C that he can hold until even his listeners feel short of oxygen. His powerful dark tenor nearly steamrollers the modest little songs on this disk; few of them justify the fervor with which he belts them...
...black southern politicians throughout the South. Bond believes that a great deal of progress can be made rapidly since, as he says, "as opposed to the North, we can see far more clearly what has to be done and exactly who and what stands between black folk and political power...
...that's only half the battle, as Bond readily admits. He must also do the same thing that he described to the audience at Babson: devise new alternatives coupled with political power. "This involves politicizing poor whites as well as blacks," Bond says. "In the main, the poor white and most blacks in the South are facing the same kinds of political and economic oppression. This is why building alliances between economic strata of whites and blacks is going to be so crucial to cracking the oppressive syndrome of southern politics. Something that won't change as quickly...
...looks like a sewer, flows right through the area and Dow extracts 300,000,000 gallons of water a day from it. The company also puts back the same amount of used water each day, after running it through a $10 million waste cleaning plant. Dow provides the power for all its machines, in three Midland power plants which generate enough electricity to supply a city of over half a million people...