Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MERLE HAGGARD is representative of the current synthesis of country music and its white, lower middle-class politics. Born into the depression in southern California, Haggard learned as a teenager how to steal and strip cars. Not very much later he was in San Quentin on a burglary charge when he heard Johnny Cash and decided to take up the guitar. By 1964, five years after he was released from prison, he had two records that sold over a million copies and in 1970 his Okie from Muskogee topped a million inside two weeks, won for him the country artist...
...greatest debacle was awaiting him in June 1967, when Nasser rashly took Syria's word that Israel was preparing an attack and ordered U.N. peacekeeping forces out of the Gaza Strip. He later admitted that he had not expected Secretary-General U Thant to comply. To his surprise, Thant rushed the U.N. troops out, leaving an obvious danger zone unguarded. In the face of Egyptian mobilization, the Israelis launched a devastating pre-emptive attack on Egypt. Drubbed in the Six-Day War, Nasser resigned, knowing that the Arab masses would plead for him to return. He did, a scant...
...sensation with his The Seven Lively Arts, in which he argued that Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, jazz, the circus and burlesque had it all over the Barrymores, the Metropolitan Opera or the works of Cecil B. DeMille. Indeed, he made a case that Krazy Kat, the comic strip, was the most satisfactory work of art then produced in America-all of which enraged serious critics of the day and titillated Seldes' many fans...
...seeds of the guerrilla movement were planted in 1948, when Israel was created out of ancient Palestine. Only some 160,000 Arabs out of nearly 1,000,000 elected to remain in the new Jewish state; 500,000 stayed in the Gaza Strip, held by Egypt, and on the West Bank of the Jordan River, taken over by Jordan. Another 700,000 Palestinians were dispersed as refugees; most ended up in 54 refugee camps in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, where they remained, forgotten by the world and deliberately abandoned by Arab nations, who found them useful propaganda pawns...
...educated and most cultured of all Arabs, would like to turn the clock back to the days before the Balfour Declaration pledged the creation of a Jewish homeland. They would reconstitute the old Palestine, which includes the present Israel, the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip. They would bar "Zionists" but would allow native-born Jews to live with them in a nonreligious society. By "native-born Jews," however, some Palestinians mean those born in the area before Israel came into being in 1948; that would amount to a small fraction of Israel...