Word: rockingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more specific about the meaning of the word "Blues." The next question then is, just what of all this Blues is being revived today. This is a simpler matter because one can say with reasonable confidence that the Blues coming out of the contemporary rock-scene is a version of the Blues form which has been developing in Chicago and other Northern urban centers sinces World War II. However, this Blues, primarily dominated by electric guitar, had its origins, in turn, in the Mississippi Delta. We must examine the Mississippi Blues form first...
Bulow was a slaveholder and he treated his slaves well. People who visited the plantation used to say how happy the place was. But sometime in the 1830's, Seminole Indians massacred Bulow and his happy slaves--destroying the coquina rock buildings. It's a national park now.Jeffrey B. Kahn.Main Street, Daytona Beach, Florida. December...
...mellower 54, when she was 18, and the marriage, with eight children, has been prolific and apparently serene. "My security and stability with Charlie," Oona has said, "stem from the difference in years between us. Provided that the partners are suited, such a marriage is founded on a rock. The man's character is formed, his life shaped." There is no generalizing on the subject, however. Pablo Casals, 92, takes an almost childlike pleasure in his wife Marta, more than 50 years his junior. T. S. Eliot felt that his marriage at 68 to a woman 39 years...
...music of my people." Opening the Philadelphia program with The Times They Are AChangin, she made Bob Dylan's classic folk tune sound like a revivalist hymn; yet she never lost any of its satiric bite. At the Metropolitan, Langston Hughes' Backlash Blues had an angular, hard-rock quality that pointed up its bitter message: "Do you think that all colored people are just second-class fools? /Mr. Backlash, I'm gonna leave you with the blues." Billy Taylor's / Wish I Knew was hand-clapping gospel at its best. Sample lyric: / wish. I knew...
...course, the backers still hold the building on Mass. Ave. and plan to turn it into some sort of money-making enterprise yet. As Leven had hoped, rock concerts will soon be scheduled. Lecturers and entertainers, will be slotted. The Light Company Building may someday become the cultural complex that Leven had dreamed of--but it will do so without his show and without him. Next weekend, one of the backers will probably visit New York in search of a small, off-Broadway production that can serve as the core of a new effort...