Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consider New York Mayor John Lindsay's reply to the students of Rough Rock School on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. The youngsters had written a letter offering to take Manhattan Island off his hands for $24 worth of trinkets and beads. Replied His Honor, with equal seriousness: "Your offer falls far short of the current value of Manhattan Island-which has become the East Coast's answer to your own Monument Valley. Our unanimous judgment is that because of the enormous growth in building and population on Manhattan since 1623, combined with the creation of a modern...
...King was locked into a dreary circuit of one-nighters-sometimes more than 300 a year-in big-city ghetto clubs and back-country roadhouses and shacks. Unlike such performers as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, he was not flamboyant or commercial enough to cash in on the rock-'n'-roll explosion of the 1950s. Unlike such country stylists as Son House and Mississippi John Hurt, he was not primitive enough to be taken up in the folk revival of the early 1960s...
Touchstone of Grit. Then came the recent wave of white, blues-oriented rock. King's guitar style suddenly started echoing through the playing of gifted youngsters like Mike Bloomfield, Eric Clapton and Larry Coryell, who singled him out as a touchstone of musical sincerity and grit. Two years ago, King made his debut at San Francisco's temple of rock, the Fillmore Auditorium. In the past year, he has made his first European tour and started getting college concert dates. And he has just finished his first extended Manhattan-nightclub booking, a week at the Village Gate...
...right, men, now hear this. Captain Rock Hudson speaking. First of all, welcome aboard the nuclear submarine Tigerfish, proceeding at top speed toward the North Pole. Our mission is to rescue a group of marooned scientists and weathermen at Ice Station Zebra. Now before we left, I had a drink with Admiral Lloyd Nolan-you older hands will remember him-and he said that the damned Russians were also very anxious to get to Zebra. Something to do with a capsule from a downed Russian satellite, espionage, treachery, the fate of the free world, and all that...
...after the war, Fries turns out to be a far more frivolous and cosmopolitan creature. His first novel is officially set in Leipzig, Fries and his characters, though, seem to belong to the new international Brüderschaft of the educated, disenchanted young, who uneasily share pop culture and rock music with peers from Vladivostok to Valpara...