Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like Joe Higgs--the man who trained both Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff and can claim with some legitimacy that he invented the music form. Reggae, Higgs said in a recent interview, is political. "Reggae means comin' from the people. Everdy t'ing, like from the ghetto. When you say reggae, you mean regular, majority. It means poverty, suffering...
...phone call at 2 in the morning in Japan to say that five of your senior employees have quit causes some soul searching. It made us realize that we needed a better pension plan and a more equitable pay structure for our employees," Eckstein said. The ordinary DRI employee will benefit from the sale, he said...
...super-market shelf. Nevertheless, America's last three decades have fostered small but musicall potent "scenes." Eric von Schmidt is a lover of Cmabridge's own folk scene, and his 309-page book, Baby Let Me Follow You Down documents it all in words and photographs. Most would say this scene went out of existence with the last Molotov cocktail that flew through the window of the Charlesbank Trust Co. But to von Schmidt, the Cambridge folk scene survived the flames and cultural demolition which devoured "the moment" at the end of the '60s. The Cambridge folk scene, he asserts...
...were so innocent," many of the book's characters say. They came to Cambridge for nothing more than a college education. "Education," von Schmidt points out, "is the key to the American dream." Then a job. Then a home. And a family. And then Woody Guthrie's refrain: "Then they all live in boxes, little boxes, all the same...
...hear kids today listen to music and get lost in it," von Schmidt complains, 'and escape into it." They'll say that folk's boring or its too soft or too slow, and I'll say, 'Well don't you think it's more sensitive?' But when people need to figure out what's going on in the world and who they are, when the energy crisis comes on so bad that middle class people are out in the backyard chopping up wood, I think you may see a resurgence in this type of music. It's sensitive...