Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grin of a man whose ideas have won out. A giant whirlpool froths and roars in the entrance plaza. Arriving cars will be whisked up a ramp to a parking wing, while guests register in the vast lobby. Most of the hotel, inside and out, is finished in rough white plaster; art works enliven public places, and there are whole walls painted in fierce pink, yellow or purple-all good Mexican colors. The bedrooms are unusually large -some 23 ft. by 14 ft.-and the corridors are 10 ft. wide...
...keeping with a widespread mood in the pop world, Beggars' Banquet turns back to the raw vitality of Negro rhythm-and-blues and the authentic simplicity of country music. This is home ground for the Stones and, among white groups, they are all but unbeatable on it. But the album still will not please listeners who lack a taste for musical graffiti. How could it, with songs like the slow, bluesy Stray Cat, addressed to a 15-year-old girl ("Bet your mama don't know you can bite like that")? Or the driving, syncopated Street Fighting...
During the festivities, the story was told of the day years ago when Carl was sitting at the baby grand piano inside his little white house in nearby Arlington. He was hammering out the same dissonant chord over and over in an all too obvious and painful search for yet another answer. Outside, Composer Cowell paused, listened, finally burst into Ruggles' room. "Carl," he cried out, "what in God's name are you trying to do with that chord?" Replied Ruggles: "I'm giving it the test of time." It must have passed the test...
...Dragged but Nothing Gets Me Down, is going from resentment to resistance. The book is an attempt to put a little chest hair on that artificial category of literature known as "young-adult novels." Hentoff injects such themes as Viet Nam, racism, generation gap, civil rights, drugs, black rage, white guilt and, for old times' sake, a touch of antiSemitism. Sex is still a nono, although the vocabulary is raunched up with such words as "bastard," "damn it," and "hard...
With red, white, and blue streamers hanging from the ceiling and crayoned quotations from every President since Lincoln on the wall, the transformed gymnasium looks like an uneasy hybrid NSA convention and junior high school prom. The keynote speeches by Mayor Walter Sullivan and Congressman Tip O'Neill have been irrelevant, the first by way of saying nothing at all, the second by way of two very long, very old Irish jokes and a passing reference to the Congressman's concern for the Cambridge situation. Both have long since departed. The Convention has descended into the introduction--hamstrung...