Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such diverse talents as Billie Holiday, Count Basie and Bob Dylan, Hammond has a knack for making the unexpected pay off. Actually, Project Bessie Smith is timed perfectly. Blues dominate the pop music scene today in much the same way that jazz did in the late 1930s and early 1940s...
...style to like or understand, and though he was often called an artist's artist, his most hostile critics were frequently his fellow artists. In fact, though he was one of the historic group of Abstract Expressionists that met at Greenwich Village's Cedar bar in the 1940s, Newman's art won real recognition only in the last decade. His first retrospective had been scheduled by the Museum of Modern Art for the fall...
Depleted Reserves. Computer readouts have already convinced Watt that population growth causes high, if hidden social costs. For one thing, a baby boom like that of the late 1940s and 1950s produces a shift in the nation's age distribution. When the young outnumber the old, higher tax loads are needed to finance the kids. Even if the absolute population growth slows to 1% a year, the relative dominance of the young boosts school taxes by 25%. More ominous, a baby boom leads to what Watt describes as "an excessive rate of social change." Adults cannot maintain traditional social...
...singer-dancer. By the age of 17, he had become a member of the Tom Gerun band. A few years later, he joined the old Isham Jones band, and when Jones dissolved the group in 1936, Woody reorganized it as "the Band That Plays the Blues." By the early 1940s, he was ready to gallop with the Herds. For the past 24 years he has spent only about six weeks a year in the hilltop Hollywood home overlooking Sunset Boulevard that used to belong to Humphrey Bogart. The rest of the time he is on the road, playing...
Once in a generation there appears an artist who by virtue of voice and temperament seems to symbolize an entire school of singing. Today, Birgit Nilsson is the archetypal Wagnerian Soprano, just as Jussi Bjoerling was the ultimate Italian Tenor during the 1940s and '50s. Both are Swedish, proving that national style has nothing to do with nationality. Since the death of Leonard Warren in 1960, no one man has been acknowledged by critics and conductors as the quintessential Italian Baritone. Now, though, there may be a legitimate claimant to the title. Like Warren and Lawrence Tibbett before...