Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIRST Electric Flag album has a song that opens with Lyndon Johnson saying, "I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the ...." He is cut of by uproarious laughter, and then the twanging of hard rock guitars. The son is called "Killing Floor...
Greeting is a new film that opens with Lyndon Johnson speaking before a labor union audience. He says, "I don't mean to say that you never had it so good, but that's true, isn't it?" O.K. Johnson's criminal insanity aside, his remarks are the ideal preface to a film that shows just how horrible the paranoid lives we lead in the shadow of Vietnam are. The film is about three young New Yorkers, Jon, Paul, and Lloyd--apparently students--and their hassels with the draft and sex. Greeting has a very hip perspective on both; unlike...
...than a mortuary, to recommend a minimum of ceremony, and to expect no remuneration for presiding. In Detroit, the Rev. Dr. Jack Rollings of Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle has set a limit of 15 minutes on his eulogies. "I remember a time," he says, "when if you didn't speak for 30 minutes, it meant you didn't care for the deceased." Episcopal Canon Howard Johnson of Alhambra, Calif., insists that caskets should be closed-"not because we are afraid to look at a dead body, but to save the cost of cosmetology...
Steam? Shades of yesteryear! Gliding silently down the streets of early 20th century America, the Stanley Steamer left a wake of admiring glances and a slight whiff of kerosene. Buffs still speak with awe of the day in 1907 when a streamlined Steamer literally left the ground during a Florida test, hitting a speed of nearly 200 m.p.h. Trouble was, the old steamers took half an hour to get the pressure up and used water at so prodigious a rate that they had to stop for refills every few miles. They also had bulky boilers that blew up from time...
...rally to the black-white-and-red flag, the symbol of an organization with which I am not in complete concord. As a result, I probably will not sit in and I shall continue to ponder the issue of my own integrity vs. my own integrity. I know I speak for many. Mark Bender...