Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coach section than filet mignon and champagne in first class up front. Because the saving is considerable ($43.89 below first class from New York to Los Angeles), more and more corporations are directing their salesmen and executives to fly coach. So is the Government; only the top brass now fly first class. Some airlines have as little as 20% of their seating in first class, and the trend is so irresistibly backward that Continental Air Lines President Robert Six believes that "first class service is on its way out. along with the buffalo. There just isn't enough demand...
...heart had been lighter while he lived, they would have played Didn't He Ramble? as they marched away from the cemetery. But John Casimir was a sober man, and when he was buried in New Orleans, the surviving members of his Young Tuxedo Brass Band left his graveside in silence...
...overstatements of nice little ideas. Solos by Saxophonist Phil Woods and Vibraharpist Milt Jackson nimbly demonstrated that what would have been fragile, intricate music for a quartet had been made fragmentary, timid music for an orchestra. In his scoring, Lewis seemed barely able to tell his strings from his brass: the violins and cellos were misused in pursuit of inconsequential filigree, while the basses took long and vapid solo runs. Lewis had gone perilously far in the quest to make jazz more respectable without making it more substantive...
Thus manned (and unmanned), the pip-squeak emblem of U.S. power "shows the flag" along the muddy rivers of Hunan province. Her engine is creaky, her biggest weapon is a tiny three-pounder, but her brass is always shined to a fare-thee-well because a dirty ship means losing face with the local warlords. The zealous captain preaches to the crew on the majesty of what they and the ship represent. Without being aware of it themselves, his men are inwardly nourished by faith in their symbolic superiority. Without any particular malice either, they take for granted that...
...former Army Quartermaster General, who was called home from his post as deputy commander of the Eighth Army in Korea to direct the agency. McNamara operates on the theory that the customer is not always right. When the Army and Navy wanted to standardize on a 12? brass belt buckle, the Air Force wanted silver and the Marines sought a 29? open-face buckle. General McNamara finally said it would be a 12? item - and black. "But why black? No one asked for black," complained one service aide. "Who the hell asked you?" replied McNamara. "You wanted a decision...