Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then it came, and the crowd gave a joyful shout, I smiled. As I boarded I thought of what big, happy family Boston subway riders were-much more espirit de corps than in New York, where shoving was the rule. Charles, Kendall, Central...
...showpiece effort that keeps Breadbasket spiritually together: a three-hour Saturday morning meeting (90 minutes of it broadcast locally by radio) in which black ministers mingle with black businessmen, tough youth-gang leaders sit beside aspiring politicians, and some 5,000 of Jackson's fans shout their "Right on, Jesse!" and "Tell it, brother!" as he pitches for the current Breadbasket programs. He calls it "hustling time," and he sells pride as well as products. "I am somebody," he chants. "I am somebody," comes the crowd's ringing echo...
...were children of God. At some far-off point in time, all these things would be rectified and we would get our golden slippers. Our religion had to mean more to us. We had to emote, we had to lose ourselves in it. We had to sing and shout, and after it was all over we had to have a big meal and have something going on Sunday afternoon. Because when Monday came, it was back out into the fields, or back to the janitor's job, or back in Miss Ann's kitchen scrubbing the floor...
...music to encompass the total black experience, says Tenor Saxophonist Archie Shepp: "The field holler, the ring shout,* the sanctified church. That doesn't exclude white people, but if white people are to be included, they must emerge with a kind of humility," For Trumpeter Don Cherry, the music speaks most eloquently for the whole musician. "Man is a species, all human," Cherry observes. "The rest is pastels. Beware of distractions...
...Shouts. Shouts turned Merilee off. Vows made long ago never to shout or be shouted at again. Once more she envisioned the lovely gown, but it was behind glass now and its story did not move. The beads had died. She thought she heard Sam threatening to leave her and she touched Girl's ragged left ear for luck and strength. Velvet ear of Girl...