Word: singing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buck Owens and His Buckaroos and Roy Clark will sing and pick and fiddle over the summer months, backed up by other country-and-Western performers like Grandpa Jones, Stringbean, Conway Twitty, Tammy Wynette, Sonny James and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Proctors in the freshman dorms agreed to remove parietals sign-in books. Only when the freshman decision was announced did most upperclassmen realize that sing-in books in the Houses had been gone for three weeks...
...room for discrimination" in the house of God, the Rev. Channing Phillips, a black United Church of Christ minister from Washington, snapped: "The same old platitudinous drivel." Explaining her own dismay with such pat pleas for racial justice, a delegate from Ceylon said: "We have had enough of singing as the missionaries taught us to sing, 'Red and yellow, black and white,/All are equal in Thy sight.' What is necessary is for us to really recognize one another as equals." A tentative resolution suggested that those who felt compelled to turn to violence should first ask themselves...
...meter of his sonnets-roughly the equivalent of playing checkers with chessmen on a blank board. This stylistic invitation to artistic indulgence occasionally helps betray Lowell into incoherence. Surrealism, after all, is mainly for those who applaud calculated chaos as critical therapy, a place where turned-on birds may sing but no poetry is written. When Lowell's struggle is against his own chaos, he does not always win. But when reason triumphs, poetry prevails. When Lowell confronts the world outside, he compels, not perhaps always for the justice of his cause but for the quality of his partisanship...
...times were hard, but McKuen had a sweet tenor voice. In 1961 he wrote the music for a song that became a hit, The Oliver Twist. Capitalizing on his success, he set off on the road, doing 80 cities in eight weeks and singing his heart out. He sang so hard that his vocal cords were irreparably damaged; he was told that he would never sing again. But McKuen kept on, even though the tenor voice was replaced by a hoarse croak...