Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took the view that jazz is best learned, if at all, as it used to be: in nightclubs, in Storeyville houses, at Mammy's knee or some other low joint. It took just one book, though, Gunther Schuller's lovingly scholastic Early Jazz, published in 1968, to confirm that jazz could stand up to the same kind of penetrating musical analysis usually accorded classics like the Beethoven quartets or the Wagner Ring cycle. Lately, jazz has swung into the academies like one of the old Woody Herman Herds thundering up Manhattan's 52nd Street...
...Cornell spokesman yesterday refused to confirm or deny that an offer had been made to Moynihan. A report in this week's Newsweek stated that Cornell had made such a proposition, and that Moynihan had turned it down to stay at Harvard...
Asked about his new career as a singer yesterday, Gill would not confirm the report, but said, "I will not deny at this point that I have a strong interest in this possibility." He said that he would not comment further until the Corporation had acted on his case...
...April 7, Kate, a Japanese cameraman, a Cambodian photographer and three Cambodian assistants vanished while covering some fierce fighting on Highway 4. Nine days later, Cambodian troops in the area found the bullet-torn and decomposing body of a Caucasian woman in a shallow grave; their discovery seemed to confirm fears that Kate had become the tenth journalist to die in Cambodia since the war spread there last spring (TIME...
...establishments, the Roman Catholic hierarchy of the U.S. has had some hard times lately. Just three weeks ago, a $500,000 study of the priesthood commissioned by the bishops themselves concluded that a "serious and potentially dangerous gap" existed between them and their clergy. Last week, as if to confirm the findings, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops met in Detroit and drew its wagons in a circle...