Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three years ago, student protests reached new heights from the Sorbonne to Columbia University. To examine the ideas and feelings of vocal U.S. collegians, a TIME cover story profiled seven 1968 graduates who were particularly articulate about their discontent with U.S. life. Their common characteristics, the story reported, were idealism and "cynicism about society's willingness to embrace their ideals." Since that report (June 7, 1968), the U.S. has undergone profound changes in attitudes toward the war, youthful protest and culture. What have those years done to the seven graduates...
...become number one on the AM radio stations. While it is hardly as epochal as "Honky Tonk Woman" or "Gimme Shelter," it is a damn fine song to dance to, filled with those old Chuck Berry-style guitar licks that sound so good on a car radio. Fortunately the vocal is somewhat garbled so that one can avoid listening to the lyrics which, besides being rife with the Stones' usual sexism, are racist to boot...
...Stray Cat Blues" and it is not particularly impressive or memorable. It is followed, however, by "Wild Horse," a beautiful ballad that is the one real standout in a uniformly fine album. The Flying Burrito Brothers did a good version of this song last year, but the Jagger-Richard vocal is unbeatable. This is clearly one of the two or three best ballads the Stones have recorded...
...wages. In return, they received an implied guarantee of lifetime jobs in the companies that they joined fresh out of school. That security has bred one of the world's most contented work forces. Japanese workers rarely strike, and absenteeism is almost unknown. Unions lately have become more vocal. Wages climbed an average 18% last year?but, incredibly, productivity rose 14%. Japan's average wages, now 94¢ an hour, passed Italy's in 1969 and France's last year...
Charles H. Perkins '74, also charged by Rosen, told a panel on Friday that he had argued against disruption before the "Counter Teach-In," and a witness supported his testimony. Perkins said that he would not have been so vocal in Sanders had there been another form of protest-like turning backs on the speakers-which he could have joined...