Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CROWD, by Stephen Birmingham. Novelist Birmingham has undertaken to become the Cleveland Amory of Proper Jewish Society in New York, the fabulously rich mercantile wizards, and he makes a chatty, genial social historian...
...biggest cities, Negro unemployment runs from two to four times higher than white joblessness. The overall rate is 3.5% for Cleveland, but it is 15.6% for the black slum of Hough. Life expectancy for the Negro male has risen to 61.5 years, a level reached in 1931 by whites, who now have an expectancy of 67.7 years. Despite all the publicity designed to discourage Negro youngsters from quitting school, unemployment among Negro high school graduates is 16.1%, while the rate for Negro dropouts is only...
Chicago's "Jobs Now," as one of its founders explains, concentrates on "the kids who can strip a car in ten minutes but can't pass a mechanical-aptitude test." Half a dozen churches with predominantly Negro congregations have rehabilitated apartments in communities from Cleveland to Kiloch, Wis. In the Hough slum, former Cleveland Browns Football Star Jim Brown and Team mate John Woolen formed the Negro Industrial and Economic Union to help Negroes start their own businesses with the help of no-interest loans...
Barenboim's quest for "the totality of the thing" has led him from the piano to the conductor's podium, which now accounts for a quarter of his more than 100 annual bookings. When the Israel Philharmonic went on to Cleveland last week, he led it from the piano in a smoothly flowing performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1, then stood up to conduct Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 with crisp authority. Such experience helps him as a pianist, he says, because "piano music is so symphonic. The piano is a neutral-sounding instrument...
...this is really beside the point - as were the comments of those who deplored the choice of such well-worn works. These performers were not out to compete with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra. They were not out to play for the audience, or for the critics, half so much as to play for themselves, to wind up a summer's intensive immersion in three masterpieces by three master composers - in short, to experience greatness tangibly...