Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goin' Up (Freddie Hubbard & Quintet; Blue Note). One of the most promising young (23) trumpeters attacks some showpieces-The Changing Scene, Blues for Brenda-in tones that can sigh contentment or choke with joy. A fine antidote to the sentimentally depressed rituals of the Miles Davis school.
In the beginning, the rebel leaders were an unlikely lot. Alabama's William Lowndes Yancy was as mild a fellow as anyone would want to meet-until, upon arising to speak, he became the "Prince of Fire-Eaters" who had made it his life's work to lead...
In the North, the leading figures were just as disparate. Massachusetts' egg-bald, cockeyed Congressman Benjamin Butler in April 1860 was a Southern sympathizer and a devoted backer of Jeff Davis for President of the whole U.S.; he lived to be military governor of occupied New Orleans and became...
Before leaving for Rome, though, Ohiri had competed unofficially with Ghana, Sierra Leone, and the U.S. He jumped 60 ft. to defeat U.S. Olympian Ira Davis in the hop, step, and jump.
Seesawing between tongue-in-cheek and cheek-in-tongue, Purlie Victorious says remarkably little about its theme, integration. Unacceptable as real Negroes, the play's characters live a fantasy life that Playwright Davis presents as gorged with self-pity and filled with a lust for revenge over past wrongs...