Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grown up with the bop revolution could rattle off chordal solos with such facility that there were no longer any challenges left. To restore the music's freshness, another revolution was necessary, but like most revolutions, it brought changes for which few were prepared. Musicians such as Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman sought to move outside the boundaries of traditional musical structure, to ignore the rules of harmony and tonality. Such an innovation also necessitated a change in listening expectations; for those who expected jazz to be tonal and chordal, the new avant-garde style seemed threatening as well...
...Cecil Cooper triggered a five-run seventh inning and Catfish Hunter was foiled in a bid for his first New York victory yesterday as the Boston Red Sox rallied for an 11-7 victory over the Yankees...
...graciously gossipy publisher of Women's Wear Daily and seven other trade publications, W has toiled relentlessly to depict, extol and embody that elusive trait. This year alone, W has identified everything from Quality People (Queen Elizabeth, Elliot Richardson, Julia Child, the Due de Brissac, Sir Cecil Beaton and 33 others) to Quality Bread (Poilane and Panetier, two Paris boulangeries). Quips a Fairchild Publications art director: "Pretty soon we'll have to change the name from...
THIS NEW sensationalism proceeds out of an assumption of boredom, which is why it is new, and not designed to be a grand old show. It's not just Cecil B. parting the Red Sea anymore--there's television's stamina to beat now--blatant images in a box day after day, 24-hour love, hate, anger and pain in a thousand ways. So you give the audience a strange brain (a devil-possessor)--lobotomize 'em. Or you carry them to a strange environment (perhaps trash the one you've got and see how they run)--show 'em anything...
...Laragh himself to go into medicine. After Cornell University and Cornell University Medical College, he moved to Presbyterian Hospital for his internship. There he came under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Loeb, a great physician who co-edited what has since become one of medicine's standard texts: Cecil & Loeb's Textbook of Medicine. The association was a fortunate one for Laragh. "Loeb was a despot, but a benevolent one," Laragh recalls. "He was fair but demanding, and his standards were the highest." Loeb was also a first-rate teacher who did not believe in spoiling his pupils...