Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While flying to Manhattan to sing in a benefit concert for the Southern Chris tian Leadership Conference, Soprano Coretta Scott King, 37, wife of the conference's leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 35, struck up a conversation with her seat mate, a white girl from Louisiana who recognized her. Was the topic race relations? Peaceful resistance? Well, not exactly, said Mrs. King. "We're both a middle child, and if you're a middle child and can survive, I've always said that you can survive anything...
...beautiful golden sunflowers inside!" declaimed Allen Ginsberg. And then he and Peter Orlovsky, his golden-tressed travelling companion, went on to sing about our outsides, a good deal less lovely...
Laughless Days. Brassens, 43, known around Montparnasse as the "Bear," comes out of seclusion to sing only three months out of the year. Last week he was holding forth before jampacked audiences at Paris' Bobino Theater. He sang of the brutalities of war, the vagaries of love, the folly of politics, and the hardships of being a gravedigger ("Farewell, poor dead one; if from the bottom of the hole one sees God, tell him how much pain that last shovelful cost me"), or a streetwalker: Even though those damned bourgeois call them girls of pleasure...
...lousy gardener. I hope he'll make a better president." Obviously, the wind of change wafts through this tart topical melodrama, an updated version of the old favorite about a group of decent, civilized folk marooned in a jungle outpost among hordes of savages. They no longer sing Rule, Britannia! Even the comforting strains of There'll Always Be an England are but dimly heard, and the tribal chieftains have evolved into smartly uniformed officers with English accents and political ambitions...
...Songs. However much white America has tried to segregate the Negro, mentally and physically, he has not stayed segregated. His slang, his poetry, his music (which Ellison fondly explores in a number of essays) have permeated and profoundly influenced white culture for the better: "Southern whites cannot walk, talk, sing, conceive of laws or justice, think of sex, love, the family or freedom without responding to the presence of Negroes...