Word: bourbonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With quick, nimble feet France's Premier Mendes-France danced around the political quicksands of the Palais Bourbon last week and brought German rearmament so close to ratification that Russia responded with her most powerful propaganda attack on France in years...
...offer has been hanging fire for a year: "They tell you it probably won't be approved and if you insist on applying they just drag their feet until you withdraw." Another businessman with $600,000 to invest sat in the Imperial Hotel last week sipping bourbon and complained: "I'll use up all the money I've come to invest paying whisky and hotel bills...
...disease: a chronic high fever to know everything. The Embattled Philosopher tells the story of how Denis Diderot, philosopher, encyclopedist, playwright, novelist, art critic, conversationalist and lover, came to personify the French 18th century, and how he created the intellectual Trojan horse that led to the downfall of the Bourbon monarchy. It is the first biography of Diderot to appear in English in three-quarters of a century, and it is a good one. Author Lester G. Crocker, a Goucher College professor and former movie writer, knows how to blow the dust off his subject, and bring both an 18th...
...artist at work today, has strong ideas about how his audiences should behave while he plays. There should be no loud joking or talking; no table-hopping; no eating. Drinking, if absolutely necessary, should be done in moderation. "Some people," he says with horror, "plunk a full bottle of Bourbon down on a table right in front of the bandstand-you know the sort that will order a whole bottle." Brubeck does not feel that way because he is egotistical but because he takes his work with a deep, almost mystical seriousness. When he is up on the platform, with...
...fortnight ago they listened and cheered him in Carnegie Hall. Last week they listened in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis as the Brubeck Quartet swung through the Midwest (as part of a jazz-concert package). Not everybody likes Brubeck's intense, quiet music; a lot of Bourbon drinkers still prefer the wilder, louder jazz that thrives on full bottles. But in a matter of five years, Brubeck fans have grown from a small, West Coast clique to a coast-to-coast crowd-particularly on college campuses. What people hear and cheer in Brubeck is not only a new type...