Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stick with Satchmo." As Davis recounts it in Yes I Can, he acquired his hard-driving habits almost from the cradle. His vaudevillian father took him into his act when he was three, saw him a headliner before his ninth birthday. The hours young Sammy kept were not those recommended by Dr. Spock, but in a way he was luckier than many of his Negro contemporaries. He never dropped out of school because he never dropped in, avoided the ghetto life by staying on the road. He was eight years old before he heard the word "nigger," did not really...
...from the service with a spirit that was unbroken, determined to scrub out his color as a bar to reaching the top in show business. He began breaking down the taboos that have long circumscribed Negroes, including the rule that colored entertainers must never imitate white celebrities. "You just stick with Satchmo and Step'n Fetchit," begged his manager. But Davis listened only to Davis, joined forces with his father and "Uncle" to form the Will Mastin Trio, soon had his audiences pounding the tables and begging for more as he imitated Sir Laurence Olivier, tough-talked...
...this long, painstakingly researched biographical novel of John and Abigail Adams, Novelist Stone has had the good judgment to stick to the historical facts and the good grace to forsake, largely, the flamboyant style that marred his bestselling biographical novels about Van Gogh (Lust for Life) and Michelangelo (The Agony and the Ecstasy). He lapses occasionally by trying to make the plain but amusing Abigail into a pert glamour girl, but he manages to convey the softening influence she had on her crotchety and unbending husband, from the day he first came calling when she was 17 until the moment...
...puts a kooky American girl named Daisy Gamble (Barbara Harris) into a hypnotic trance and transports her back to 1794, when she was the bride of the rakish Edward Moncrief, and was destined to drown in the shipwreck of the Trelawny. With this paleo-romantic glue, Lerner tries to stick together a libretto incongruously torn between the pseudo science of extrasensory perception and the pseudo metaphysics of reincarnation...
...craft unions are also snarling at one another. The skilled unions-Printers, Photoen-gravers, Machinists-are beginning to balk at across-the-board wage increases; they want percentage increases that would bring them more money. The unskilled-Mailers, Deliverers, Paper Handlers-on the other hand, want to stick to flat-sum increases, which, at their lower pay rates, would mean more money to them...