Word: rockingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...songs, and "arresting" songs. Once, the Beatles had a near-monopoly on good and arresting songs--this is no longer true. Leaving aside such heavyweights as the Rolling Stones and the Who, even lesser luminaries like Donovan, the Kinks, and Traffic have produced their share of Beatle-quality rock-and-roll. This being so, one is proportionately less impressed with the Beatles as the quantity of their quality work declines. When, out of 30 songs that are clearly not setting new standards, so very few of them are worth frothing over by one's old standards, one cannot restrain...
...Birthday" comes through as the outstanding song on the album, fitting into the great "It Won't Be Long"-"Anytime At All"-"Daytripper" tradition with a strong and majestic Harrison guitar line, complemented by shouting hard-rock singing. It is a fertile blend of rhythms featuring a vivid piano (Nicky Hopkins?) answering Harrison's tasteful and beautiful guitar breaks...
From the mid-Pacific battleground, Sherrod cabled: "A small rock memorial near the Betio Club, blockhouses, big guns-everything but a few shot-up am-tracks visible at low tide belongs to the Japanese. It seems fitting to affix a bronze plaque at the base of a white pylon in memory of the United States Marines who won a unique battle there. They provided the lessons for the rest of the journey...
...toward the brink of crisis. On the day that Schiller, chairman of the Group of Ten, summoned the world's leading central bankers and finance ministers to an emergency meeting in Bonn, demand for gold in London hit the highest level since March. In New York, sterling hit rock bottom at $2.38. In Swiss money markets, it slipped even lower. The dollar, by comparison, weathered the crisis fairly well, reflecting general confidence that the U.S. was finally doing something convincing about its balance of payments problem...
...game of 1909 was not destined to be a breakthrough for modern football. Both teams relied on their rushing attack and on their rock-solid defenses...