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Rollins, a tenor saxophonist who came out of a self-imposed retirement a few years ago with a whole new set of ideas, is one of the most inventive and original musicians in jazz. His cleanly phrased solos are tightly conceived, angular little tone poems. Though he takes great liberties with rhythm, his superb sense of timing prevents him from losing the feeling of swing. Rollins' meeting with Coleman Hawkins created the kind of excitement which Thelonious Monk's meeting with Pee Wee Russell completely failed to engender. The exchange of ideas between Rollins, with his jabbing, knife-like tones...
...craggy, angular inventions mirror the liquid inner life of the American spirit...
...stars, a photocell reports the star's position to a computer. When three bright stars have been reported, the computer measures the angles between them and compares them with known angles stored in its memory. No two groups of three stars have exactly the same angular arrangement, but if the computer picks up one group that might possibly be mistaken for another, it observes a fourth star and uses it to remove all uncertainty. When the computer has decided firmly what stars the mirror was looking at, it tells the spacecraft how it is heading...
Some of Detroit's 1964 offerings will be changed simply because their styling has been around too long. The four-year-old Falcon will lose its rounded look for more angular lines, and the Comet will look sleeker and longer. The plump Thunderbird will be completely restyled to give it le .n-looking body lines. The Rambler American will grow four inches, look more like the larger Rambler models. Chrysler's Imperial will resemble the Lincoln Continental-and Detroit is hardly surprised. After all, new Chrysler Stylist Elwood Engel came from Ford, where he was largely responsible...
...mystery of Christ's sacrifice is sung to diminishing candlelight, until at last only one candle remains-the Light of the World. The colors of the music suggest the gathering shadows, and Poulenc gives it a timeless serenity by weaving into it ancient liturgical forms along with angular modern music...