Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...During the week students at the University of Vermont asked Nixon to describe the most exciting day of his life. "It was the day I received a scholarship to law school at Duke," he reminisced. Then he diplomatically corrected himself. "No, that was the second-happiest day. The first was the day I proposed...
...fancy moved him, Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington could probably write a jazz composition based on a stock market report. The Duke demonstrated the point three years ago when he turned out a 14-part suite obscurely inspired by a line from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In hot form last week, with just as obscure a burst of inspiration, he paid tribute to a man who "swings"-Novelist John Steinbeck. Occasion: the premiere at the Monterey Jazz Festival of the Duke's Suite Thursday, based on Steinbeck's novel, Sweet Thursday...
...this summer. He then called up Lyons and asked a few pointed questions: "I don't remember the book too well-any jive going on? Is there some jungle [i.e., conflict]? There's gotta be some sweetness and fruit." With the plot straight in his mind, the Duke sat down and dashed off a four-part suite with typically cryptic subtitles: Miss Fits Blues, Schwiphti, Zweet Zurzday, Lay-By. "That last," explained the Duke, "is an emergency parking area by the roadside of England. See how it all fits...
...brought cries of "No, no!" from an audience that did not want it to end. Said Ellington in explanation of one part of his piece: "It has not only to do with changing of the colors and the octopi, but the people in the story." But not even the Duke could explain just where John Steinbeck came...
...skillful exploration of the Sons and Lovers theme, stars Jason Robards Jr.; The Tenth Man mixes modern psychology and ancient rite in Playwright Paddy Chayefsky's tale about a Jewish girl possessed by an evil spirit; The Miracle Worker, with brilliant performances by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, dramatizes the brave, difficult relationship between blind and deaf-mute Helen Keller as a child and her teacher, Annie Sullivan; The Best Man, though superficial in characterization, provides a vivid theatrical look at campaigning politicians. Three musicals remain spicy and satisfying: West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein's brassy, big-city...