Word: label
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dreaded monolith" [July 12]. My question is why do we have to combat them at all? These European nations are choosing their own form of government now just as the U.S. did 200 years ago. It scares me to think that there are many Americans who still label any non-American form of government as the enemy...
Right On, Roy. In 1972 Ahmet Ertegun, chairman of Atlantic Records, heard Buchanan play in New York's Carnegie Hall and said: "You can write your own ticket on my label." Only now has Buchanan finally decided to pick up that ticket. His new LP on Atlantic, A Street Called Straight, is working its way onto the charts and has generally been hailed as the first album that captures the excitement Buchanan can generate in public performances...
...unless it did. The fact is that Southwestern is now in its 108th year of continuous operation, and has worked with over 100,000 college students since the depression. It is inevitable that out of such a large number of people some would be unethical or dishonest. But to label all salesmen unethical on that basis makes no more sense than to label the entire medical, legal, scientific, academic, and journalistic professions corrupt because of the corrupt actions of a small fraction of their total membership...
...fraudulent claims about their ancestry. Then the law will have to specify what it means to be black, Spanish-American or white. Is it really in the interests of the fight against racism to have official legal definitions of certain races or minority groups? Is it really wise to label and pigeonhole every American in order to know what special quotas each can fill? The final disaster will occur when the government starts issuing official heredity status cards to all citizens...
Willie Nelson has his own label now, and it shows, not very flatteringly. The graphics on the jacket of The Sound in Your Mind (Lone Star) are about the worst I've seen, but it has enough good music on the inside to make it worth your while. "That Lucky Old Sun" and a medley of three of his old hits are the high points. Willie still gets sentimental and ponderous at times, as in "The Healing Hands of Time" but here's nothing as awful as his "Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain", thank...