Word: digs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sunshine, a beautiful person may greet life with a puzzled squint, but he can stay secure in jazz merely by reading Down Beat magazine, calling all the players by their nicknames, and taking pains to dig only the right musicians. Today, one good word spoken for Louis Armstrong spells cultural death. John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and Thelonious Monk are the musicians to admire-it doesn't really matter that they are also the best...
...INSTRUMENTALISTS. Of the 1,213 instrumental soloists Schwann lists, most are pianists (452), but curiosity seekers may dig out the name of Bruno Hoffman-the one and only glass harmonica virtuoso. Along with lonely exponents of the virginal, the psaltery and the oboe d'amore, there are 166 violinists, 88 organists, 73 harpsichordists, 64 flautists and 56 cellists listed, each count a statistical gain over 1960. Walter Gieseking and Sviatoslav Richter are the leading pianists, with 46 recordings each; Richter had only 19 three years ago, and, having made the biggest jump of any instrumentalist, he is now being...
...gotta back out. That simple. Life's a lot like racing. I used to want to charge right through the pack. Moss gave me some good advice: 'Stay loose. When you have to charge, be a smooth charger.' Dig...
...Tests. Students at the school do not have to fuss with the pin-pricking routines of tests and homework. There are no credits and no grades. Says Program Director Douglas Carter, 33: "This type of student will dig into things for himself." Some noted guest lecturers will spur the digging. Last week Laura Fermi, widow of Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, began lecturing on science for ten days. She will be followed by Novelist Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), Playwright Paul Green and Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges. A symphony orchestra, string ensemble, ballet and drama groups are already...
...life. Rocketing out of the blocks, he leaped into the lead, gaining speed with each driving stride. The track was a special, rubberized asphalt that Hayes found to his liking. "It doesn't give like cinders," he said. "You lose about 1/10 second on cinders because your spikes dig in." As he sliced through the tape 5 ft. ahead of his closest pursuer, astonished officials huddled and checked their watches. Then they announced his time: 9.1 sec.-a new world record. To prove it was no fluke, he ran another 9.1, winning the finals-but that didn...