Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gershwin! Dig all the rock 'n' roll beat groups! Pick up on all the bestselling novels! Because I am one of them millions of "can-not-be/shall-not-be/integrated or (Uncle Ralph Bunche) assimilated," I figure it's best to talk, walk, sing and swing like a true nigger! It is like my music, jazz. It's personal, and the sounds often change from nigger to Negro and from colored to Afro. That's our sound. It's our contribution to the world, it's pure Afro-American. It's beautiful. 'Taint...
...viewer behind the volunteer's eyes to experience what they are experiencing. For example, we are treated to a motorcycle ride at 40 m.p.h. down the village mainstreet, dodging all kinds of carts and cows, as a volunteer poultry farmer brings his eggs to market. We walk along with another volunteer as he goes into the village to do his daily errands in the late afternoon, stopping with him to greet his friends and students...
Forcing a student to get a loan in his home town could also cause problems, Brademas noted. He cited the case of a Negro who would have to approach a banker in the South. "He would be lucky if he was able to walk in the front door," he said...
...sonata that he had played two nights earlier in Durham, he seemed to be testing Porterfield. Striding backstage immediately after finishing the sonata, Rubinstein asked: "Did you notice any difference between this time and the night before last?" "Yes," said Porterfield, "this time was better." Rubinstein turned to walk back onstage to take his bows, saying as he went: "Then you are all right." While Porterfield's answer may have been the safe one, he had considerable basis for his judgment, since he has pursued music for 18 years, arranged and composed for his own band at Yale...
...passionately involved in life; I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to speak, to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings?it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle. Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me. Music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that. I think I can say no man has lived his life more...