Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is much talk about the burning (even fire stations), looting, shooting and overall rioting. But how long could the Black man sing the same old song, "WE SHALL OVERCOME." He in many instances has changed that tune to "WE SHALL OVER RUN" and wherever his beautiful black hands strike a note, the cold, bitter, angry music leaves a melody that lingers...
...Administration sins, with some thoughtful papers that have provoked serious discussion. He gets along better with the press than ever before, al though he is still not exactly chummy with reporters. A "new" Nixon? The next few months will be a better test. Meanwhile, Julius Monk's mummers sing in This Year's Model...
...music is the latest confection created for the subteen market, which accounts for about one out of every four single records sold. These customers, who range from high school freshmen all the way down to third-graders, are the displaced persons of the rock revolution. Today's groups sing about such everyday teen-age concerns as war, alienation, racism and narcotics. But to quite a few subteens, especially the more sheltered ones, having a social conscience means worrying about getting home by 10 p.m., grass is just grass, sex is necking, and the byword is don't trust...
...eyes of more than one essayist. Rather typically, Political Scientist Charles Hamilton (Black Power) peevishly sees Styron involved in a white man's plot to divest black people of their "historical revolutionary leaders." Novelist John O. Killens ('Sippi) writes: Styron "is like a man who tries to sing the blues when he has not paid his dues." And several essayists, without even the leavening grace of black humor, dryly accuse Styron's Turner of lacking rhythm in his speech. In fact, these black literary jurors are so outraged that a white man should dare to write about a black, they...
...schoolmaster Holofernes (Stefan Gierasch), barefoot, bowlegged, and wearing a huge diaper and silver-rimmed glasses, is a middle-aged Gandhi with traces of a Bronx accent. His sidekick Nathaniel (Ken Parker) has trouble reciting without beating his right hand in time with his sing-song delivery...