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...Tell it like it is," her listeners exhort, on their feet, clapping and cheering. She goes into a "holiness shout"-a writhing dance derived from gospel services, all the while singing over the tumult. This is why her admirers call her Lady Soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: LADY SOUL SINGING IT LIKE IT IS | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...majority of Americans, who know that Lyndon Johnson speaks the truth when he tells them they never had it so good, often find the tumult incomprehensible. Congress senses the mood and refuses to be rushed; it figures that most elections are still decided, as one political analyst put it, by "the un-poor, the un-black and the un-young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE AGE OF CONTENTION | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...success of Roth's monologues rests not on the author's familiarity with this kind of sociology, but on the fact that few writers of his generation can match his ability to perceive and record manners and minutiae, or equal him in relating life's inner tumult to its outward appearances of order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Perils of Portnoy | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...McClinton and Buck Buchanan (both black), cooled the crowd. But then, as the youngsters began boarding buses, Kansas City police responded to a thrown pop bottle with a popping of tear-gas bombs. During the rock concert itself, officers investigating a report of a glass-breaking incident heard the tumult from the church basement and hurled tear gas inside, routing the kids. That added fuel to a rampage resulting in 250 fires, $500,000 damage in looting and burning, 65 injuries and six deaths-all of them Negroes shot by cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: RAMPAGE & RESTRAINT | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...height of the Communists' savage Viet Nam offensive, Lyndon Johnson's low-key performance was a cool effort to mask one of the most trying weeks of a crisis-ridden presidency. Amid all the tumult around him, Johnson still found time to chat amiably with West Berlin Mayor Klaus Schütze, make yet another plea for a 10% income tax surcharge, and present the Heart of the Year Award to Actress Patricia Neal, who suffered three near-fatal strokes three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Long Way from Spring | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

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