Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVERY SO OFTEN, one man writes the kind of book which grasps a thousand little threads of fact and forcefully weaves them together into a pattern so clear, that the reader wonders why he had not seen it all along. Eldridge Cleaver has done just this in Soul...
...liberation of American music which occurred around 1954. Elvis Presley started moving his hips, white song writers raided black lyrics to send toned-down versions across the country. Chubby Checker taught the rich how to twist. Today Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin have brought the feeling of soul to white bodies from Boston to Seattle...
...Soul on Ice, Cleaver...
...never easy," he went on. "Sure, we've got a tough problem. What we've got to do is hold to reason. For every progressive soul there are one thousand self-appointed guardians who will fight against any change at all. Nobody likes change. We must do what the British did and guide this revolution into peaceful channels. They did it for several centuries, and they did it brilliantly by and large. They used the skills of their great moderate leaders who stayed ahead of the tides and didn't allow the waves to drown them...
...they. The play is brilliant, ceaseless, and for those too shy, too polite or too slow to answer back, intimidating. More dismaying still are his long silences and gestures of overanxious assent. These are the times when he is learning a new part, not conversing but understudying, snatching your soul away before you have time to sell it. The knowledge gained in this way is astonishing. From his father, a railway man, he learned the names and locations of all the American cities with populations of more than five thousand...