Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exeter Afro held a black mixer with black girls from prep schools in the area. The band was a soul group from Exeter called the Precisions. The Precisions are rumored on campus to be unpopular with the administration because there aren't any whites in the group...
...that she sang bass during the harmony while the males took over the higher octaves in falsetto. Rhythm guitar was played by a giant of a man with an Apostle's beard, hollow eyes, and a swollen voice. His guitar, slung low and hanging horizontal at fly level gave soul to his songs...
...Administration, both Jack and Bobby were criticized by black leaders for inadequate and tardy attention to civil rights. That attitude changed gradually, so that now, when Kennedy visits Watts, the word is "Make way for the President." In Washington's ghetto recently, he was greeted as a "blue-eyed soul brother...
Nevertheless, Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts is an impressive collection by one of the U.S.'s most stylish and original satirists. Indeed, Barthelme tucks into these stories his own credo and best definition. "Fragments are the only forms I trust," says one fractured soul. And elsewhere: "Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole...
...Here, in the gay parks and bars frequented by people in "the van of decadence," is modern hell for sure. And Yuichi-make no mistake-is Mishima's modern damned man: he who kills everybody and everything he touches by a kind of pathological indifference. He is a soul capable of being neither corrupted nor redeemed because he really wants nothing, nothing...