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...song about a place he'd visited or a girl he'd loved. But he'd always get back to toughness: ["Them big city women sure do make me tried. Got a handful of gimmee. Got a mouthful of much obliged."]. He didn't sing social protest songs like Pete Seeger or Woody Guthrie. He was scornful of things in general...
...Unlike Pete Seeger, Harvard drop-out with social conscience, Rush, Harvard graduate with Urge for Going, wanted to make it. He didn't want to play in little bars all his life. Like many folk musicians who came out of the folk boom of the sixties, he was torn between the folk art -- which except in times of boom doesn't sell -- and some kind of popular success. He chose the latter, although he did some good singing in the process...
Harvard's greatest weakness throughout the afternoon was that it could just not catch 22, UMass attackman Pete Conolly, who got loose for three goals and six assists. Conolly, a short, sunken-chested milque-toast with an equally unimpressive stick, somehow knew exactly where to be, where to shoot, and whom to feed...
...grass, feebly hoping that the speakers' assurances that peace in Indochina and big-name entertainment were both on the way would somwhow come true. Peace in Indochina is nearly as far off now as it was then; but the entertainment actually arrived in the shape of Pete Seeger, who spent an hour or so leading what he charitably called "the crowd" in song--peace songs "for 53 per cent of you" ("I know a young woman who swallowed a lie..."), civil rights songs, folk songs, and just songs--for all the world as through he had never sung...
Atlanta ran away from the Celtics in the first period behind the shooting of Pete Maravich, who had 29 points, and the Hawks held the lead until nearly the end of the third period, when White went on his scoring binge...