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Word: swings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choices made here remain inexplicable, hence you should go prepared to be bored. A few of the heavies: Joan Baez, Richic Havens, Santana, Sebastian, Joe Cocker, Ten Years After. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, each set more intolerably mediocre than the last and if you start with Baez doing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," you can imagine where that takes you. Where are the Airplane, or the Dead, or even the Band...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The Moviegoer Woodstock at Cheri Theatres | 4/15/1970 | See Source »

With Gordon on third. Watt took two strikes and then on a checked swing. trickled the ball past shortstop Serrano to win the game...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Crimson Nine Splits With Lions; Hitters Avenge Close Loss, 11-5 | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

Besides Shaw, three other Harvard milers came in under 4:12 during the swing through the South, John Enscoe churned out a 4:06.8 while Tom Spengler ran the distance in 1:07.5 and Bob Seals just made it under...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Shaw, Alvord Stand Out Harriers Pass Up Jamaica For Southern Competition | 4/7/1970 | See Source »

...would be lacking in the sudden turns, the shocks, the swift changes of pace (all jazz-shaped) that serve to remind us that the world is ever unexplored, and that while a complete mastery of life is mere illusion, the real secret of the game is to make life swing. It is its ability to articulate this tragic-comic attitude toward life that explains much of the mysterious power and attractiveness of that quality of Negro American style known as "soul." An expression of American diversity within unity, of blackness with whiteness, soul announces the presence of a creative struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT AMERICA WOULD BE LIKE WITHOUT BLACKS | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

Taste and Love. Ever since Dixieland and ragtime, jazz has worked best, and spoken most eloquently for the black American, when it was most free and spontaneous. By the middle 1950s, after swing and bebop, jazz was wedded to the classics through the progressive jazz of Brubeck, the Modern Jazz Quartet and others. It took on an increasingly formal, warmed-over character. At that moment, the need for the New Thing first stirred among future jazz movers like Alto Saxophonist Ornette Coleman, Pianist Cecil Taylor and Tenor Saxophonist John Coltrane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Thing | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

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