Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the changing nature of the campaign, the increasing isolation of McGovern from his zealous admirers and his greater reliance on older veterans have had a negative impact. "There is some feeling that the campaign has got so big that it's lost its direction, if not its soul," he says. "A volunteer can no longer run up and rap with McGovern in a hotel lobby for five minutes the way he used to. In the next few weeks, we have to get the message across to the grass-roots workers that they will be needed," says Hart...
...hear poetry: "the night I promised I'd give you has just begun, our night that'll be different from all the others, with a dawn that won't creep over dirty window panes but will wake in the sky like a promise of God's peace in the soul's dark sadness. Will you listen to me Jim! I must be a poet." But the sensitivity and experience of the Loeb cast imbue the language with a special grace nonetheless. If you turn your head from the stage for a moment and just listen, the effect of their voices...
Russ Ballard is not only Argent's guitarist, he also writes nearly half the band's songs. Ballard's songs emphasize guitar as much as Argent's rely on organ and piano. "Tragedy", opens with a good soul band guitar lick, that becomes the basis of the tune. Rod Argent's role on this one is to build the total sound with his full-bodied chords, and to play a smoothly-phrased duet with Ballard during the break. The transitions between chorus bridge and break are smooth--repeated listening shows this to be one of the band's strong points...
...Democrats. It may galvanize the election-or the defeat-of George McGovern. It contains the potential for a struggle that may make the issue at Miami Beach even larger than the selection of a candidate. What is at stake is the Democratic Party's future and its political soul...
...This campaign has a soul of its own," says McGovern Campaign Manager Gary Hart, 34. "The volunteers don't want it to become just another political campaign. There is a mystique about it." Some fascinatingly complex psychologies were involved. Said Patrick Johnston, 25, a probation officer and delegate from California's Calaveras County: "What this nomination and election represents is a test of whether the liberal and the young are willing to win. There are a lot of people involved in the campaign who have a sort of suicidal urge to lose. The reason is that in losing...