Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Powell, Red Garland, Bill Evans and Horace Silver all have had stronger influences than Monk's on jazz pianists. Monk's sound is so obviously his own that to imitate it would be as risky and embarrassing as affecting a Chinese accent when ordering chop suey. Besides, Monk is off in a bag all his own, and in the sleek, dry art that jazz threatens to become, that is the best thing about...
Price Cutting. Caught in a frenzy for bargains, British retailers slashed prices on a wide range of goods. Some supermarkets cut the price of cigarettes by four pennies, others made a sixpenny cut in chocolates and a one-shilling chop in razor blades. Most appliances were reduced anywhere from 10% to 30% in the big stores. Scotch whisky was marked down 10% in many stores. Said Jack Cohen, chairman of the powerful 340-store Tesco chain: "The cut prices still show us a very good margin of profit...
...Talk & Chop. Formed three years ago, the Liberation Front has a "cabinet" composed of South Vietnamese; the "chairman" is Nguyen Huu Tho, 53, a Saigon-born, French-educated lawyer. But naturally, he is only a local coverup for North Viet Nam's Red Boss, Ho Chi Minh. The Front's "capital" is believed to be the Viet Cong's military GHQ, which is situated deep in the jungle 75 miles northwest of Saigon, conveniently close to the Cambodian frontier, and protected by a maze of fortifications plus 1,000 elite troops. From there, a disciplined apparatus extends...
...joined the "poets unfashionable" like A. E. Housman and Rupert Brooke who "condescend to rhyme and scan and take care," White told a Library of Congress audience. After a decent interval, he will be rediscovered, but for the nonce, said T.H. of T.S., "he is out-due for the chop. Eliot is no longer cool. He's square...
...Columbia. Perhaps this is one way in which Washington's Negroes are responsible for their own misfortunes; Southern members of the House District Committee, resentful of giving money to an integrated and 85 per cent Negro school system, refuse to provide enough money for the schools. They regularly chop the District's budget far below the levels recommended by the President and the three District Commissioners, the men who theoretically run the city, but who actually are little better than ambassadors to the District Committees...