Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST WINTER an album appeared on A and M records entitled The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard and Clark. The jacket featured a hill-billy type on a motorcycle passing a joint to another in a sidecar. That picture is almost a visual description of the music on the inside, a very gentle blend of C and W and rock. Generally the term Country and Western calls up images of excruciatingly sentimental lyrics with a fiddle and banjo contest going on in the background. But the arrangements on Expedition (songs written mostly by the musicians Gene Clark and Doug Dillard) combine...
Their frustration is likely to increase during the winter and spring. The economy is at a new and potentially dangerous turning point; inflation is hanging on, but the pace of business is slowing down. Government economists fear that in the early months of 1970, unemployment and prices will be rising simultaneously-and that it will bz almost a miracle if the U.S. does not experience that unhappy combination of events...
Numbers are a part of every segment, brightly illustrated by animations and films. Letters are also featured. On the first program, the letter W was the focus of a segment involving Wanda the Witch, Who Walked to the Well one Wednesday in Winter to get Water to Wash her Wig. The Wig was Whipped away by a Wild Wind. Moral: "Witches Who Wash their Wigs on Windy Winter Wednesdays are Wacky...
...primitives, it is likely to become an arrogant distortion of its own truth. Practicing the sensibility he preaches, Eiseley begins each chapter under the guise of an old-fashioned personal essayist. Almost casually, he recalls a walk on the beach, the odd behavior of his shepherd dog one stormy winter night, a dig among American rhinoceros bones...
...years to come. Life was an amusement that ended abruptly with World War II. Totally apolitical, Elmyr was nevertheless shipped off to a Transylvanian concentration camp. "I was," he says with Magyar flair, "obviously too colorful a person for the safety of the state." He survived the Carpathian winter by painting the commandant's portrait-very slowly...