Word: texts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twenty minutes after that, at a rally of 3,000 working-class Democrats in South Philadelphia, Kennedy clambers onto a table. He has no text. His sentences are simpler. His speech strikes a booming rhythm, and the crowd chants in response to him. "At other times in our history when we were facing problems, we didn't throw up our hands in despair." "No!" shouts the crowd. "We didn't talk about malaise in the American spirit." "No!" comes the reply. "We rolled up our sleeves." "Yes!" the people shout. "And set out on the job to be done...
...there normally a connection between a headline and the text that follows? "Connally Blames the Jews" is a catchy title. Blames them for what. I wondered, and what did he say? But the article left me still wondering. Is the clue in the assertion that they voted conservatively...
...feelings are ambiguous. James himself never quite pinned down what instinct preserved Acton and his fortune from her designs. The movie is even less clear on that point, perhaps because Lee Remick, as Eugenia, does not touch on those hints of boldness and desperation that are implicit in the text. Robin Ellis might have brought to Acton more of the shrewdness and tart ness of his Poldark. As presented, the pair are so agreeable and handsome that one sees no reason for them not to get together...
...sound if unexciting introduction to jazz were it not for another set of limitations. The Da Capo edition of The Jazz Makers is actually a reprint of a book published by Rinehart in 1957. Although Da Capo reveals this significant bit of information only in the copyright, the text proclaims its age on nearly every page. It is difficult to imagine a contemporary anthology of jazz personalities without Davis, Monk, Mingus, and Coltrane but the only modernists in The Jazz Makers are Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, both of whose innovations were widespread by 1950. Equally dated are the trite...
Gordimer says she foresaw political harassment over Burger's Daughter, her most political novel to date. She included in the text of the novel a banned document from the Soweto riots in 1976. "I took certain liberties and I was afraid the government would ask themselves was she one of them? (Communists). She must have had access to early documents, perhaps...