Word: succession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When they themselves are the folk who compose the songs, their performances do not depend merely on vocal skill. What matters is a unique fusion of material and manner that ul timately projects personality and point of view. Four recent albums by composer-singers attempt this projection with varying success...
...ironies. Among the best in this consistently rewarding collection: the wistful Now That I've Taken My Life, in which a man who gave up a free and happy ivory-tower existence, "pleading reality," tries to convince himself that he likes "solid-gold women" and his hollow new success...
...when he was editor of Britain's leftwing New Statesman, Freeman wrote that Nixon's record "suggests a man of no principle whatever," one who has "done lasting damage to the conventions of American political life." Freeman now argues differently, saying that Nixon "has proved by his success, and the quite admirable struggle which he has made to achieve it, that he has the qualities of leadership that make him worthy of high office...
Ferré's New Progressive Party was founded only last year, but its success was widespread. It won 26 mayoral elections; the P.D.P. had not lost one of the island's 76 municipalities since...
Neither the economic nor the human success of the program is achieved without some hardship. Says Boston's NAB director, Joe Breiteneicher: "You've got to get whites already on the job to work alongside the black, the ex-con, the dropout, and we're often sending them all three in one." The new employees are sometimes met with hostility: a Negro in Boston was run down by a fork lift, another was felled by a dropped pallet...