Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind Gilbert came Texas Ranger Zeno Smith, in cowboy boots, shirt, hat-and with bugged recordings to back up Gilbert's story. The Rangers had listened in while one Buck Owens, ex-Teamster bullyboy turned Ranger informer, tossed leading questions at San Antonio Teamster Business Manager Raymond Shafer in motel room conversations. Sample exchange, splashed with BEEPs to blot out the profanity...
Freedom. Says Philosopher T. V. Smith of Syracuse University: "I all but missed this professional career, and I shudder to think how close I came to that misfortune . . . We are as little as possible engaged in the power struggle. Our profession has managed to make of arduous work a pleasure by transmuting pressures into power-with, rather than power-over, others . . . Only those who know the military or have experienced the industrial form of organization will fully appreciate how lucky is our academic lot ... It is good, how good, to share the unearned increments of joy arising from continuous collaboration...
...growls through the classic wails of Special Delivery Blues, Mighty Rumbling Blues, St. Louis Blues. In the upper register it is nothing more than a hoarse squeak; but down in the subterranean passages it flows, moans, glides and sighs with a power that has been achieved before-by Bessie Smith, Lizzy Miles-but that is still as rare as a 20-carat diamond...
Barbara's throaty roar has often made critics mention her name in the same breath as Blues Singer Smith's. She has the same spine-grabbing talent of "bending" a note-hitting her target, then turning on the power as she slides a quarter tone above or below. After Barbara appeared with Louis Armstrong at the Pasadena Jazz Festival last month, the master called an agent cross-continent and gave his own estimate: "Did you get that chick? She's a gasser...
...primitive artists were after: not beauty so much as life. In fact, says Elisofon, some of the objects "were believed to be alive by their makers. An important belief of the Polynesians was in mana, an impersonal supernatural power. Sculptures contained mana." Such modern sculptors as Lipchitz, Gonzalez, David Smith and Brancusi are not far from this idea, and for mana they, too, sacrifice resemblance. "The primitive artist and the modern one," says Elisofon, "both produce more of what they feel than of what they...