Word: soul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EDDIE HARRIS, PLUG ME IN (Atlantic). An electric tenor saxophone? The idea may offend jazz purists, but rock fans will get a charge out of this easygoing soul session. With capable backing from such musicians as Jimmy Owens and Joe Newman, Harris uses his extra go-power to create warmth and depth. The set gets off to a rolling, sinew-stretching start on Live Right Now, a down-home boogaloo. Harris plays with heavy-throated gentleness on the bluesy Ballad (For My Love), and with a dulcet, flowing tone on Winter Meeting. There's just a bit of metallic...
...like a psychic aroma-he was a fine and pleasant candidate but for that sweetness. It was excessive. Not artificial, but excessive, as the smell of honeysuckle can be excessive." He describes Gene McCarthy's followers: "Their common denominator seemed to be in some blank area of the soul, a species of disinfected idealism which gave one the impression among them of living in a lobotomized ward of Upper Utopia...
...getting tired of Negroes and their rights. It was a miserable recognition, and on many a count, for if he felt even a hint this way, then what immeasurable tides of rage must be loose in America itself? He was so heartily sick of listening to the tyranny of soul music, so bored with Negroes triumphantly late for appointments, so depressed with Black inhumanity to Black in Biafra, so weary of being sounded in the subways by black eyes, so despairing of the smell of booze and pot and used-up hope in bloodshot eyes of Negroes bombed at noon...
...find the film's simple attitude towards its characters and their simple attitude towards each other a relief--or pitiful unrealism. Your reaction depends blatantly on the romance in your soul. Are you willing to submerge your modern psychological self-consciousness and accept that love can be that strong...
...more you enjoy Hagbard and Signe, the more it may depress you ... because way down in the depths of your romantic soul you'll know this is how men should be. These characters don't play with their own intellects for our delectation. They rarely even talk. Their spirits shine with a brilliance we've lost sight of, and they are simply beautiful, the bad ones even in their evil...