Word: colossuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Owings. Said the prospective father-in-law, a co-founder of the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architectural colossus: "I've never been either a Republican or a Democrat. But I've always been for Adlai...
...additional write-offs on the jet program do not exceed the $5 to $10 million the directors now predict. But before General Dynamics can realize the promise it once seemed to show, someone will have to give it the aggressive, even arbitrary, leadership to convert it from an artificial colossus to a unified corporation...
...subtleties to a basically Parker conception of improvising, but his real message is greater awareness of the possibilites of the thematic development of a solo. Of course, this was all largely unconscious; but Sonny, like all the great improvisers, has an extremely disciplined unconscious. His best records are Saxophone Colossus (Prestige 1079) and A Night at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note...
...like a ghost ship from the banks of the Moldau River. Unveiled in 1955, after three years of steady chiseling, the 56-ft.-high statue of Stalin stands atop a 40-ft. base, flanked by eight slightly smaller figures representing workers, soldiers, scientists. Instead of bothering to demolish the colossus, people were whispering in Prague cafés last week that Comrade Novotny could simply cut off the heads of the eight statues and label the edifice: "In memory of the victims of Stalinism...
...journalism's vast landscape dwells a strange colossus-part newspaper, part showman-that has its keepers buzzing with puzzlement and concern. Like churchgoing and weekend barbecues, the Sunday newspaper is a national institution. It is big, boisterous and, for the most part, glowing with financial health. But for all that, it presents a growing problem not only for the men who put it together but for the readers who scatter it across the living-room floor each Sunday. How is the Sunday newspaper changing-and why? What do its editors want it to be? Is it aimed...