Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate defense is that it was a bungle. The dimensions of crimes committed under the Nixon banner are now known and understood in some way by almost all Americans. -The history of this nation suggests that when profound moral issues like this one settle in the national soul, nothing will deny a final, convulsive resolution. Certainly the Civil War was such an issue. No fancy legal footwork or geographic compromises or maneuvers by politicians could prevent the final act of war. Perhaps the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s were similar outpourings that would not be denied. If we have...
...abandonment, in the summer of 1871, of 32 New England whaling ships, the biggest and costliest such fleet ever assembled. The ice closed round the ships and wrecked them. The crews escaped in small whaleboats and were eventually picked up. Of 1,200 men aboard the vessels not a soul was lost. But many a Yankee countinghouse was foreclosed, many a proud harpooner sent back to the plow...
...garde blacks as the plantation bandanna, giving way to such hairstyles as the puff and the shag. But no successor to the Afro coiffure has caught on more rapidly than the corn-row-tight, Topsy-like plaits that until recently were worn by women. Now a growing number of soul brothers are sporting buckwheat braids in as many variations as there are African nations, where the style is traditional...
BRIEFLY--Guitarist and singer of velvet soul George Benson will be at Jazz Workshop this week. There will be soul next door, too, with the Persuasions playing Paul's Mall...Boston's big-name concert this week will be the New York Dolls playing the Orpheum. Never having heard them, I hope they're better performers than whoever writes their press releases...
Graham is more a figure than a man, a walking mannequin who has sold his soul to the devils of modern image-making. His reverence is wrapped in Hollywood holiness, and the whole package is better suited to a television screen or a stadium platform than a room filled with real people...