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...place to expose the student to conventional language, the teacher should not rob the black student of his right to articulate in a manner in which he is most able to express himself. We will lose a culture if we do this -"and I ain't just sellin' wolf tickets...
Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night With bruised arms and broken rhythm and a beat-up old Buick but dressed just like dynamite, He tried sellin his heart to the hard girls over on Easy Street, But they said, "Johnny, it falls apart so easy and you know hearts these days are cheap...
...register their 14th victory in a row-and make good on Driesell's promise to build his team into "the U.C.L.A. of the East." True to his word, Maryland as of last week was ranked No. 2 behind the West Coast's six-time national champions. "Sellin'," says Lefty, "that's all there is to coachin...
...beyond, searching for talent. He parked in gas stations overnight, bedding down in the back of the car with a pistol for protection. At dawn, he would shave in the station's rest room, eat a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast and then hit the road. "I learned sellin' encyclopedias," says Driesell, "that if you knock on enough doors, you'll find somebody who wants what you're sellin...
Hollers & Blues. Negroes have been sifting their sorrows in songs like this for centuries. It started, says Mahalia Jackson, who is now 56, with "the groans and moans of the people in the cotton fields. Before it got the name of soul, men were sellin' watermelons and vegetables on a wagon drawn by a mule, hollerin' 'watermellllon!' with a cry in their voices. And the men on the railroad track layin' crossties?every time they hit the hammer it was with a sad feelin', but with a beat. And the Baptist preacher?he the one who had the soul?...