Word: duked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Girl Friday. At the Harvard-Epworth Church, Thursday at 8. Preceeded at 7:30 by Duke Ellington Jazz Concert. Jazz Concert...
...Star is worthy of a passing glance in this tabloid line-up. It boasts no accounts of the strange or bizarre; but it does provide some new insights into the lives of personalities like Connie Francis, Sammy Davis and John Wayne. (We can all rest easy once again--the Duke is back with his wife after a two-year separation, according to the Star.) The New York Times didn't have that story...
...negligent, grown-up attitude." While at Eton, Darwin engaged in quoting contests to see who knew Pickwick Papers the best. He practiced for these contests by seeing if he could continue out loud once he reached the bottom of a page. Certainly, Darwin would have ascribed to the Duke of Wellington's statement that "the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton," for he considered the English public school, as epitomized in Tom Brown's Schooldays, to be the great builder of the moral...
...only the peasants still doffed their caps to the Duke's grave and abolished those categories...I mean, you must surely have endured exhaustive, exhausting discussions about X (who "one could never demean by comparing to Chick Corea, Coltrane, McLaughlin, Gillespie," whoever--pick your villain) and his "progressive" jazz that's trail blazing so fast they use dynamite to clear out the way to new enlightenment...
However, if you have not degenerated to the ultimate limits of poltroonishness, you may heed the Duke's advice and forget about those categories and enjoy jazz this weekend in Cambridge. After all they even argue about whether the term "jazz" was derived from the Creole Chasse-beau or a sexual association, derived from jasm--so you won't be trailblazing, merely patience-breaking, if you try to discover pure jazz. Like Disraeli's put-down of Bismarck's revelling in the label "honest broker," ("There is no honest broker") the phrase is a contradiction in terms...