Word: yer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each word past and forthcoming, and deftly employs the syllables to counterpoise the principal rhythm. "The Lemon Song" is a tongue-in-cheek medley of blues cliches, even to the point of "down on this killin floor." Although the band is almost as wry as the Beatles in "Yer Blues" or "Helter Skelter," the result here as there does not prove durable. Led Zeppelin's only ostensible love song. "Thank You," is quite frustrating. Page assumes a twelve-string and Plant emulsifies his voice for such less than breathtaking lyrics as "If mountains should crumble into the sea/ There would...
...ancestral home and to a small, typically New England town of Great Barrington. At the time of his death the great intellectual probably would not have been welcome in Great Barrington, for he had renounced his American citizenship, joined the Communist Party, and gone off to Africa. Yer, although DuBois turned away from the United States in disgust, he never spoke of his birthplace without a warm vibrancy in his voice and a soft look in his eyes. Last Saturday William Edward Barghardt DuBois, scholar, sociologist, historian, editor, publisher, and racial activist in a sense returned to Great Barrington...
Hayward, "Yer beoodiful in yer wrath...
...official group. The other members include: Nguyen Xuan Phong, like Lam a Southerner and former Minister With out Portfolio under Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky when Ky was Premier in 1966; Mrs. Nguyen Thi Vui, niece of a Trotskyite killed by other Communists in 1946 and a successful law yer with a long record of working for the poor; Vuong Van Bac, a Northerner, a lawyer and a Ky man; and Nguyen Ngoc Huy, a professor at Saigon's National Institute of Administration...
...without any apparent guiding objective or sense of urgency, they seem to be substituting synthetics for synthesis. Even their renewed interest in the song styles of the English music hall and rhythm and blues-one of the album's most attractive features-is slightly tainted. In the hollow Yer Blues or the sentimental While My Guitar Gently Weeps, the longing for roots is too calculated, like the urban sophisticate's nostalgia for the primitive...