Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INDONESIA'S "nonalignment" took on a strong Western tilt after the aborted Chinese-sponsored coup of 1965. But now Djakarta has led the Asian effort to pressure the U.S. into a military withdrawal from Indochina. Lately the Indonesians have begun to talk about normalizing relations with Peking...
Joplin's Pearl (Columbia) is not just her best LP, but in all probability the best ever recorded by a white female blues singer. In contrast to the blowsy, brassy backing of three earlier LPs, she is supported this time by the Full Tilt Boogie Band, a tightly knit combo dominated by Richard Bell's superb piano. Never before did she exercise such control over her voice. To hear her build Kris Kristofferson's country blues ballad, Me & Bobby McGee, from tree-shaded quiet into high-noon bustle is to know that pacing and nuance...
...velocity of seismic waves under different parts of the West. He also points to much more conspicuous signs of its presence: the hot springs in California and Yellowstone National Park, the remnants of old volcanoes-Arizona's Kitt Peak, for example, and Crater Lake in Oregon-the upward tilt of the American plains as they stretch westward toward the Rockies and the shape of the mountains themselves. Unlike the Andes or even the closer Canadian Rockies -both of which were squeezed up by massive lateral pressures-the American Rockies seem to have been at least partially lifted by enormous...
...After a while they begin to relax-they find out that they can just live and take their time to do things. I spent hours last year just watching an eagle catching air currents by the cliffs out there. It was really remarkable-he'd balance in the air, tilt and dip, and rise again forever without moving his wings...
...movement of history, one thinks of those eloquent words which Harold Laski wrote of de Maistre-whose willful obscurantism sought to exorcise the French Revolution: "The world that had seen the fall of the Bastile," he wrote, "was bound to be a different world. To tilt against its fundamental principles may have been courage, but it was the courage which has been immortalized by the dangerous pen of Cervantes." But for "cyclical" Lipset there is never "a different world." It is ever and always the same, a world of domination. For as Adorno observed of Spengler, the principle of relentlessly...