Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rejoinder to his critics in such cases is that "every decision that I have made I believe has been made in the public interest." It is a fact, moreover, that despite his obvious business bias, he is often hard-boiled with businessmen. Besides, Flanigan does frequently take the rap for decisions made higher up in the White House, where his loyalty is above question. He is extremely close to the President. He headed "Citizens for Nixon" in 1960, and when Nixon moved to New York after his defeat in California in 1962. Flanigan helped him raise funds for other Republican...
...another letter to Sister Elizabeth, Berrigan talked about recruiting some fellow prisoners. "The young guys here more and more sit in on our rap sessions. They are car thieves, bank robbers, old experienced cons for all their young ages. They are creative, personable, funny, violent, racist, but what an injection they'll add to our movement. We hope that before they leave here to have them started on an investigation of life-one which will put their talents at our disposal...
...acquitted), the bizarre case underscored the kind of psychological disorientation suffered by many G.I.s long after returning from Southeast Asia. Over a two-year period, Levy has studied a randomly selected group of 60 ex-Marine combat veterans in an Irish working-class neighborhood of Boston. Through interviews, rap sessions and conversations in bars, he discovered a common tendency on the part of his subjects to carry into civilian life the unbridled violence that served them well in combat. "They have learned to react violently, spontaneously and without premeditation," says Levy. "It's a situation that keeps them alive...
...communist leader (and that one has to be seen to be believed), a poor street gamine (Paulette Goddarde) steals bananas. On the dry hot streets of Los Angeles in the middle of the depression the gamine is nearly arrested, until the gallant Chaplin recently released from jail, takes the rap. Chaplin takes us to jail with him, but only for the immortal nose-power scene is which the poor convict comes across a bit of cocaine and begins a series of pirouettes. Eventually, Chaplin encounters the gamine again in a paddy wagon from which they blissfully escape together...
Hayes' most notable contribution to pop so far has been to introduce the "rap" into the top 40. While the organ holds a chord, Hayes talks for as much as ten minutes-or sermonizes, as in his preamble to Never Can Say Goodbye: "We as humans have a tendency to let two things run away from us: our pride and ego." At first the raps were a way to get nightclub audiences quiet. Then they became a bridge between white men's songs (Hayes' favorites: Glen Campbell and Burt Bacharach) and black audiences. Of his 18-minute...