Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...based on simple, old-fashioned virtues like trust and decency has been shattered. I had thought that, as an underdog, I would impress people with my determination and sincerity." If he had it to do again, McGovern said, "I'd be more discreet, more cautious about baring my soul." He summed up by insisting: "I don't think the American people got a true picture of my campaign." Of course, the reverse may have been true-that too many Americans got a reasonably clear picture of a well-meant but inept campaign. Or that the majority of Americans...
...Gabor, Charlton Heston, Jimmy Stewart and Rosalind Russell. Comedian Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra will star at the entertainments to be held in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Other performances will range from the Philadelphia Orchestra, with Pianist Van Cliburn, to Soul Singer James Brown and Pat Boone...
DOUG SAHM AND BAND (Atlantic, $5.98). Call it country blues, Texas swing or western cum soul, Doug Sahm has come up with a rollicking bag of songs that combine the best of both the white and black rural traditions. The undeniable excitement of the recording is the result, perhaps, of the presence of a number of distinguished "extra" sidemen: Dr. John the Night Tripper, Guitarist David Bromberg, and, of all people. Bob Dylan, who plays guitar, harmonica and organ and even lends a little vocal counterpoint to (Is Anybody Going To) San Antone...
...from Talleyrand: "He who did not live in the years before the revolution cannot understand what the sweetness of living is." The film is about a young man's struggle to reconcile radical politics with an almost lavish romanticism, to fuse Marx and Talleyrand in his lofty, poetic soul. Revolution has the intimate feeling of a personal memoir, of experience hardly assimilated and still freshly felt...
...American romanticists, Kerouac found his main preoccupation as a writer in his own responses to himself. He celebrated the open road, the moment intensified by Benzedrine and marijuana and writing nonstop off the top of his head. But Kerouac lived mainly in his memories. "Nostalgia dominated Jack's soul," said his friend and most eloquent eulogist Allen Ginsberg, who also saw Kerouac as "the last of the great American Christian drinkers." It was alcohol that contributed to the abdominal hemorrhaging that killed him three years...