Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lobbying in Congress for better legislation to protect the aged. Says Miss Kuhn: "Much of senility is not irreversible; it is induced by despair and frustration. Fixed retirement is dehumanizing. It shows how stupid our society is in making scrap piles of the elderly. We're not mellow, sweet old people. We've got time to effect change and nothing to lose." Gray Power has even attracted youthful devotees -known, of course, as the Panther Cubs...
Side Two features one song that sounds just like "Dead Flowers" and another cut that resembles but is vastly inferior to "Moonlight Mile." It is redeemed primarily by the presence of "Sweet Black Angel," the flip of the current single; it is one of the few things on the entire album that is worthy of the Stones...
...Wilt Chamberlain, vindication was sweet. The most dominating personality and physical presence in professional basketball for the past 13 years, he had been stamped as one of sport's alltime great losers. As his detractors took delight in pointing out, in critical play-off games Chamberlain seemed unable to produce the same heroics he performed so matter of factly during the regular season. Although he held numerous individual records and honors, he had helped only one team to a national title (Philadelphia, in 1967). The Big Dipper, the knockers said, choked in the clutch...
...acts, using music by Tchaikovsky, pro vide a touching but repetitive romantic-ballet picture of Anastasia's life prior to the October revolution. The final act is a jarring change to a heavily psycho logical modern-dance style (set to a dreary electronic introduction and Martinu's sweet and sour Fantaisies Symphoniques). A distraught Anna, apparently living in a mental ward, relives the past as she imagines or remembers it. As to whether Anna was an impostor, no one knows for sure, including, unfortunately, MacMillan...
Here again, the biographies prove enlightening, for they emphasize the women's struggles to learn and achieve recognition in a craft, as well as the sweet smell of their success; they record the traumas as well as the blessings that haunt the artistic soul. Biographer Frederick Sweet, for instance, describes the decade of apprenticeship which Mary Cassatt had to endure before Degas asked her to exhibit with the Impressionists. Later, Sweet adds how Cassatt's work deteriorated as she grew blind near the end of her life, and then, a bit ungenerously, how "friends from America found her querulous...