Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANYONE FOR MOZART? (Philips). The Swingle Singers, having made J. S. Bach a belated bestseller by scat-singing him (Bach's Greatest Hits), have tried to do the same by Mozart (Sonata No. 15, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik). Unfortunately, young Mozart never was as cool a swinger as the Old Wig, and the babaladelahs sound emptier festooning his classical melodies...
NIRVANA (Atlantic). Flutist Herbie Mann and Pianist Bill Evans stage a slowdown, giving a performance that is either extremely cool or simply congealed. There are some pleasant Oriental overtones but scarcely a beat, let alone a pulse, in most of the pieces (Willow Weep for Me, Mann's Nirvana); Cole Porter's I Love You is a cheerful exception...
McNamara-who lopped off a cool $8 billion. In December, the J.C.S. members and McNamara all flew to the LBJ Ranch, where the President, sitting at a picnic table near the banks of the Pedernales River, heard them out. McNamara explained that he and the Chiefs were "98% agreed" on the budget-it was that other 2% that mattered. Each Chief explained why his service needed more money than McNamara wanted to allow. When it was all over, the President agreed with his Defense Secretary, and McNamara's cuts were reflected in the $49 billion military budget sent...
...most startling part of the change may be that the classic conflict between parents and children is letting up. The archetype of the James Dean-style cool youth is giving way to the likes of the teen-age hero of James Leigh's new novel What Can You Do? "I've never been able to see the big rebellion scene in order to prove you're an individual," drawls Hero Phil Fuller. "Much less friction if you just go with it. That's elementary physics: the heat of friction is waste energy...
Strong Music. The life that stirs in his lines-even in the rare love poems or the many graveyard tributes to the dead-often seems a creation of the proud will, not the passions. But for the careful ear there is strong music, cool and casually regular. Gregory is a highly professional craftsman who has chosen to work mostly in silver and pewter and dull bronze, rarely in gold. His muse is a plain girl, easily overlooked in flashy company-but the eye wanders back to her, for she has perfect skin, fine bones, a direct, grey gaze...