Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Park, originally a vacant lot seized from the university, so sacred to radicals that even the idea of the construction of a small volleyball court in 1991 led to accusations of tyranny, sit-ins and arrests. The city's parking meters refer to "Indigenous People's Day" rather than Columbus...
DIED. HARRY "SWEETS" EDISON, 83, jazz trumpeter; in Columbus, Ohio. Initially tagged "Sweetie Pie" by saxophonist Lester Young in the 1930s and finally just "Sweets," Edison had a warm, soft trumpet sound that was beloved by bands and singers. He worked with everyone from Count Basie (with whom he played for 12 years) to Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra...
...Copland, classic blues and '70s California pop); it gives symphonic heft to his cagey misanthropy, makes the tunes endlessly listen-to-able. The jauntiest tune in the new set, a sashaying march for Great Nations of Europe, accompanies a brilliantly bleak history of New World colonization, slaughter and disease ("Columbus sailed for India/ Found Salvador instead/He shook hands with some Indians and soon they all were dead/They got TB and typhoid and athlete's foot/Diphtheria and the flu/Excuse me--Great Nations coming through!"). The song's caustic end: that "some bug from out of Africa" might destroy America "like...
...about those who, like gun advocate Lisa Bochard, think teachers should carry guns is that they are fools. Do you want your child taught by someone who is willing to shoot students? Would this kind of atmosphere foster learning and personal growth in America's public schools? NIKKI CUNNINGHAM Columbus, Ohio...
...hundred years ago, we fixed it. The period from 1890 to 1910 saw the invention of most of the major civic institutions of American life today, including the Boy Scouts, the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, Knights of Columbus, organized labor unions, the Rotary Club, the Kiwanis Club, and the YMCA...