Word: classicize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jungle is a classic of American social reform, and it put Sinclair first in the company of early 20th century muckrakers: Frank Norris (The Octopus, The Pit), Ida Tarbell (The History of the Standard Oil Company), and Jack London (The War of the Classes). Sinclair started a short-lived Utopian community in New Jersey, called the Helicon Home Colony, with the $30,000 he earned from The Jungle...
...they will be able to discern several distinct phases in the stylistic evolution of the Beatles. Rubber Soul (1966) was the last album of their archaic period, blending the best kind of rock naivete with a mastery of simple forms. Sgt. Pepper (1967) represents the Beatles at their classic moment, fusing the pop spirit and an astoundingly eclectic range of sounds into a harrowing but harmonious whole. Their double-disk album called simply The Beatles, which has just been released in the U.S.,* may well be interpreted as an example of the group in a mannerist vein. Skill and sophistication...
...times the pianist sounds like Oscar Peterson or early Dave Brubeck, as he lays down a firm base of intricate rhythms and unpredictable chord progressions. The right hand produces a steady, lilting melodic line that can flow from originals to classic themes-as in Chopin Prelude/ How Insensitive, which leads from an E minor prelude into a bossa nova favorite with a similar mood and melody. Pretty good for a 15-year-old. As Critic Leonard Feather puts it, by the time Craig Hundley is old enough to shave, he might well be the best-known pianist in jazz...
...Motherless Chile," while this incredible black dancer does a dance that everyone in the room likes. They liked a dancer on a TV special. No one likes dancers on TV. They always prance around and mince. These guys were studs, they had the moves. Then the Lieber-Stoller classic "I'm Saved," with Elvis leading...
...Nader stage of auto-erotica: a chronological arrangement of 100 carefully detailed 10½-in. by 13¼-in. color renderings of such classic cream puffs as the 1853 Dudgeon Steam Wagon, the 1898 Riker Electric Tricycle and the 1903 Oldsmobile Curved Dash Runabout...