Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mary Ake Columbia...
...adviser who works mainly for Democrats, said his private polls show a strong anti-Carter sentiment developing among the electorate. If the nomination does not go to Ted Kennedy, Garth predicted, "then it's going to go to someone else"-but not to Carter. Historian James Shenton of Columbia University said, "Carter increasingly looks like a man out of his depth...
...Another Columbia historian, Henry Graff, a specialist on the presidency, noted that some Presidents have been popular because they were father figures, like Eisenhower, or brother figures, like Kennedy, but "Carter seems like one of the boys on the corner. He doesn't appear to understand what leadership is. Making a change in his style is like a zebra opting to have spots instead of stripes-it doesn't make a significant difference...
Haydn: String Quartets, Opus 20, Nos. 1-6 (Juilliard Quartet, Columbia; 3 LPs). Propulsive rhythms, a biting attack, hard tonal sheen - these are the qualities listeners have come to expect from the Juilliard, and they are not necessarily the best qualities for Haydn. But the surprise of this set is the mellowness and suppleness, the emotional inwardness of the performances. All to the good, since these are pivotal works. In them the 40-year-old Haydn deepened the content of his lightly ingratiating early quartets, incorporating folk tunes into a more tightly woven texture and often finishing off with...
Nick Lowe: Labour of Lust (Columbia). It's all in the title: carbolic little anthems to carnality, full of ironic world-weariness and melodies that take you by surprise. Love songs that draw blood by one of rock's wittiest writers...