Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene. The newest thing is the Hardware Look, and anything bright and metallic will do. There are chains to jangle at the waist, neck and wrist. Coats and pocketbooks come studded with nailheads, bells will tinkle along skirt hems, and shoes now have metal toggles and linked brass loops. Outsized zippers are on everything...
...businessmen switch jobs as drastically as Austin R. Zender, 63, who describes himself as "a metal man by profession and a candy man by design." Ending a long and successful career as president of Bridgeport Brass Co. and later as head of National Distillers & Chemical Corp. when the two merged, Zender postponed retirement to become head of a confectionary company on whose board he had sat since 1954. Under his aggressive leadership, Peter Paul Inc. has taken over a position among the leaders of the nation's $1.4 billion candy business...
...King of Chinese Communism, the loyalty of the army is essential if his revolutionary dream is to come to pass. Last week Red Flag bluntly warned that the Maoists "face the danger of losing the army," and Mao took action. First, he promised that all of the top brass who would come to the army's 40th anniversary party and repent and switch to his full support "would be welcomed." The ploy was a dismal failure: only four of China's 13 regional commanders showed. Then, amid dark hints of a major purge, Mao summoned a meeting...
...Last night, the latter's Prelude - which more successfully survives detachment from the whole than most of the other Wagner excerpts that turn up in the concert hall - came through with a good deal of its innate robustness and exuberance. In some places the strings were overpowered by the brass, and the complex contrapuntal combination of themes was not always clear. The two climactic cymbal clashes at the end, however, came off so perfectly that the player smiled with satisfaction...
Finally, let me point out that the concert was free, unlike all the previous ones sponsored by the 1967 Summer School. The top brass and woodwind would do well to consider reverting to the policy of earlier summers and making all its concerts free - at least to students - since the Summer School reportedly shows a fat profit every year. It is really niggardly to ask students to pay money to sit it a Turkish bath and listen to music saddled with obbligati by fire sirens, motorcycle mufflers, and horns of the non-french variety...