Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blue Grass songs span the gamut of human emotion. From the melancholy love ballads so beloved in American popular music, Blue Grass stretches to deal with love from home and family; the life of the soil: the chronicling of great events in ballad form (e.g., "White House Blues," a song about the death of McKinley); the perils of such diverse occupations as truck driving, horse racing, railroading, mining, soldiering, and crime of all types; loneliness; the joy and humor of living and the pathos that goes along with it. The range of expression in Bill Monroe's songs and music...
Best of all, Bynum says, there would be no foreseeable shortage of materials for the improved roads. Combined with asphalt, the old tires and bottles disposed of in 1970 could pave a freeway that would span the U.S. 23 times...
Semantic Fog. The closest thing to a Nixon Administration definition of recession is the "adjectival" standard advanced by McCracken: a recession is "a substantial and broadly based decline in business activity that runs for a considerable span of time." Presumably using some such criteria, Arthur Burns, the new chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee two weeks ago that we do not have a recession and I do not think we are going to have it." A the same hearing, Burns and McCracken conceded that U.S. production is dropping and will probably remain flat...
...method, of course, has several obvious advantages. With a diligent effort, the author can turn out a book in two months, well within the life-span of an athlete's popularity. Since the story is told in an athlete's own words, more or less, it has more direct appeal to an audience that is usually hungry for the "inside stuff" on the athlete. And since the subject himself actually wrote the book, as it were, it can lay claim to being an "official" autobiography-always a valuable asset to its financial success...
...Schaap's hasty effort in writing it. Granted, the time element threatened to make the book outdated if the author delayed longer than six months to have it published. But other authors, John McPhee, for example, have created fairly competent accounts of other athletes within a roughly comparable time span. Schaap's biggest failure, it seems, is that he relied too heavily upon his experience in writing Instant Replay, with Jerry Kramer, in his effort to put together a similar effort on Namath...