Word: stewart
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...Stewart's Never a Dull Moment continues and solidifies the tradition of the picaresque in rock music that he established with Every Picture Tells a Story. The idea of Stewart as the eternally travelling vagabond can be traced as far back as "Man of Constant Sorrow," from his first solo album. But it is with Gasoline Alley's title song and his reworking of Elton John's "Country Comforts" that Stewart became seriously concerned with a partially autobiographical view of himself as vagabond. Since then he has rearranged his priorities in recording, and his albums, an equal measure of originals...
...Stewart is doubtless the best lyricist writing popular music. And more than anyone else with the pretensions, he fits the role of troubadour--the single, often lonely man, who writes and performs songs of his travels. Stewart plays songs from his shuffling youth in front of ever-larger audiences...
...Dillard and his frequent collaborator, William A. Stewart, president of the Education Study Center in Washington, the implications of Black English are obvious: ghetto children often have learning difficulties that are basically language problems...
Some schools have already begun teaching black children the rules of Standard English as though it were a foreign language, but Dillard and Stewart would go even further. They argue that such children should first be taught to read Black English, so that what they see on the printed page would correspond to the way they talk. Stewart's organization, in fact, has produced three experimental reading books-Ollie (see box, below), Friends and Old Tales-in parallel Black English and Standard English versions. In theory, once the child masters the principle of reading, Dillard writes, "transition...
...without egotism, Kimelman says, "I enjoy achievement." His unceasing drive soured many personal relationships, including those with his brother-in-law, who dropped out of the business, and with former Governor Ralph M. Paiewonsky, who accepted his resignation from the commerce commission. But Kimelman caught the SAMMA fancy of Stewart Udall, then the Interior Secretary, who hired him as his aide. In Washington, Kimelman became friends with McGovern, whom he admired for his antiwar stand. McGovern and his supporters have been frequent guests at the Kimelman home overlooking the Charlotte Amalie harbor. (Campaign Managers Frank Mankiewicz and Gary Hart rested...