Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon has proved harmful to Republican office seekers in much more direct ways. In recent weeks, both Spiro Agnew and Richard Kleindienst visited Mississippi to sing the praises of Democratic Senator James Eastland, while never mentioning Gil Carmichael, the Republican who is running against him. Stunned by such a direct slap in the party's face, Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker drafted a letter supporting Carmichael that was signed by 12 G.O.P. Senate colleagues, including Jacob Javits, Mark Hatfield and Charles Percy...
...certainly rank as one of the most erotic of versions. In one scene of the opera, Carmen does a striptease, then lolls on a bed in her underwear, grabbing at Don José. Later the couple fall into bed and, through some miraculous exercise of lung power, manage to sing their love duet while they are passionately embracing...
More than most performers, Seeger wants to get his audience to sing with him. And he likes to get them to do harmonies. "Okay," he says, "all you folks with the high voices sing like this...And you with the low voices, you can go like this." In a way, it's as if he longed for the voices of the old Weavers to echo in front of him. More likely, his real desire is to get people to enjoy themselves, and to give them that religious feeling of fraternity which he (correctly) feels they want...
...contradictory strains permeate Seeger's performances. On one hand there is his love of Woody Guthrie. "He taught me so many things I didn't know," he says of Woody. "After all, I had gone to private schools all my life." Seeger likes to sing Woody's songs about working people, and loves to refer to Woody, and also to Leadbelly (whom he always calls "Huddie Leadbeller"). He often makes reference to the common people--the old Southern mammy, the railroad worker in the empty railway station--from whom he picked up this song or that...
...this combination of musical craft and political commitment that makes Seeger attractive. Of course it is true that he sings well, but so did a lot of other folks out of the Thirties and Forties whose names escape us today. He plays the guitar well, but that's not it either. However one may feel about particular political commitments Seeger made at particular times, one cannot help but admire his persistent hope. He stood up during eras when many other good men and women folded. He has retained his capacity for outrage, without losing his ability to sing love songs...