Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Also, he's such a great stylist--those wonderful phrases which people are always quoting in dissertations. `This decent and dauntless people'--Churchill used James and probably didn't realize he was quoting him. And James touched his time at so many points. George Moore writes, 'James went to Paris and met Turgenev, William Dean Howells stayed at home and read James.' It is marvelous that an American could take his seat at the European table of fiction so early in our history...
...James was concerned (at a time when Americans weren't) about what place Americans should take in the civilized world. It's curious that at that time people should have thought he was highly critical of Americans. Actually, Americans carry off the moral victories in his novels...
...This country can support only two folksingers at a time, and right now those two are Pete Seeger and Odetta," a Harvard senior said sometime ago, giving up plans to make a living with a guitar and banjo and heading off to the Law School...
Since that time, the West Coast has spawned the Kingston Trio and other so-called "folk groups," Oberlin College gave birth to a prospering folk song and dance act, and Boston has fallen prey to the indisputable economic lure posed by B.U. and Brandeis folkniks. This week two old troopers, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, initiated the Golden Vanity, an unconventional coffee-house...
...their poverty-stricken days in Carolina and Tenessee. They began with Midnight Special and Can't Stop Me Now Because I'm Climbing On Top of the Hill, during which Terry, a man with a rhythmic soul, seemed to be singing and playing his harmonica at the same time. Sticking to the tried and true, they followed with John Henry, Take This Hammer and Poor Howard's Dead and Gone, an old Leadbelly song which Terry recorded at the memorable Carnegie Hall Christmas concert with Pete Seeger...