Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inspired by the example of former Gospel Singer Sam Cooke, Aretha decided to try the pop field. She started by auditioning for a New York manager named Jo King. "Aretha did everything wrong," recalls Mrs. King, "but it came out right. She had something?a concept of her own about music that needed no gimmickry. She was a completely honest musician." Groomed by Mrs. King, signed to a Columbia Records contract, Aretha began plying a sometimes seamy circuit of jazz and rhythm & blues clubs?with disheartening results. "I was afraid," she says. "I sang to the floor...
...Called "conceptual art," it usually exists in the form of a scale model, a preliminary sketch or a written description, suitable for framing. Any of these items, the artists explain, are but a hint, a shadow, a shade, a clue to the real thing, which is usually some concept so complex, so subtle, so abstract or simply so large that it cannot be reduced to a mere two or three dimensions...
...Soviet Union has always subcribed, in theory, to the concept of rule by committee--Presidiums, Politburos, etc. In the past the theory has broken down and power in the USSR has always seemed to devolve to one man--possibly this happened because the needs of material development were the most pressing ones at the time. Today, however, the Soviet Union is governed in a partnership, an uneasy but still functioning one, between the Party (in Brezhnev) and the government (in Premier Kosygin). This fusion of the legislature (the Communist Party plays the role of a legislature in the Soviet Union...
...Harlem River group is following a concept long familiar elsewhere, particularly in white rural America, where cooperatives have long supplied services ranging from credit to electric power. Lately, the idea has won enthusiasm in the ghettos. Following last summer's riot, some 50 rudimentary "buying clubs" appeared in Detroit, at first merely to provide food in short supply after existing stores were burned or looted clean. One such venture, called Community Consumer Coop, Inc., has now made plans to open a neighborhood dairy store...
Died. William R. McAndrew, 53, director of NBC News since 1951, who devised the hugely successful concept of team news coverage (Huntley-Brinkley) and organized a 1,000-man army of network newsmen; of injuries received in a fall; in Bronxville...