Word: difference
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charlie Mingus denies that Crow Jim exists: "How can you talk about Crow-Jim and look at Mississippi?" And, adds Negro Pianist Horace Silver: "The whites started crying Crow Jim when the public got hip that Negroes play the best jazz." Nonetheless, believes Silver, the differ ence between soul or "funk" music and other varieties of jazz is the difference between talking "colored" and ordinary English-and only a Negro musician can feel it. "It is murder today for white jazz players. Negro clubs just won't play them." says Impresario George Wein. White Pianist Paul Winter...
...after the 1960 census. Kansas reapportioned itself, took the old Fifth and Sixth districts and threw them together as the First. Each of the old districts had a popular Congressman, one a liberal Democrat, the other a conservative Republican. Now they are running against each other, and they differ on almost all issues. Says Democrat J. Floyd Breeding, 61, a farmer-stockman, of his opponent: "What I'm for, he's against." With that sentiment, Republican Robert Dole, 39, a lawyer, concurs...
...only place where I differ with your editor is the sentence "When Stan Getz and his cool tenor made the scene in the late '403, Hawkins was Out with...
...companionship he wanted among the girls of the Tenderloin. But at 35 he became engaged to Caroline May, a Maryland society girl. Perhaps thinking better of this, he got drunk at a New Year's party at his fiancee's New York home. Here accounts differ. Some say that, in full view of everyone, he urinated into the fireplace. Others say he urinated into the grand piano. The engagement was off. Bennett and the girl's brother fought (halfheartedly) the last duel in the U.S., and the publisher exiled himself to Europe...
Gavin did differ sharply with the Kennedy Administration on one of the touchiest issues which separate the U.S. and France: President de Gaulle's insistence that France create its own nuclear force apart from NATO. In plainly worded reports home, Gavin argued that De Gaulle is determined to build his atomic force with or without U.S. cooperation, and that the U.S. might as well help on everything short of the warheads themselves. Kennedy presented Gavin's arguments to the National Security Council, then advised him that the U.S. still objected to the whole notion. But White House...