Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aristocrat on French horn: The class of the brass, he is refined and erudite, is one of the highest-paid members of the orchestra and acts like it. Unlike the other brass players, he has never known the camaraderie of playing in dance bands, and tends to stand aloof. He is adept at organizing strikes and protest movements...
Quite simply, the Administration wants more tangible support from the most voluble champions of the SST. This week chiefs of the plane's U.S. customers-eleven airlines and one leasing company-will meet with Federal Aviation Agency brass to hear a plan for their direct participation in the prototype financing. The FAA wants them to chip in $1,000,000 for each of the 58 planes they have on order, over and above the $100,000-a-plane deposits they have already made. Later, foreign airlines, which have signed up for 56 SSTs, may be asked to join...
...fascinated the industry for weeks: What would happen to Founder-Chairman Donald W. Douglas Sr., 74, and his son, President Donald Jr., 49, who had been widely blamed for the company's perils in the midst of prosperity? An answer of sorts came last week, when McDonnell brass flew to Santa Monica, Calif., to agree on terms for the merger...
Richard Lindner's art comes on with the blaring oompah of a brass band. His subject is people-notably women. They are overripe nymphets whose hearts belong to Dada. Emblazoned in garish circus colors, more powerful than comic-book Supermen, his colossal caricatures loom like contemporary Baals...
...course, but no more so than Mohammed or Buddha or Machiavelli, so the best thing to do is go out and get a job. Another heroine (as we learn from her "New Angles on Life notebook") is mildly inspired by a sermon, but finds her salvation in a brass bed with an old friend who happened to be in church that morning. It's good to dismiss it all like that, but don't admit the symbolism--unless it's at the artistic level, of course. For a while you actually seemed to take it seriously, and that should never...