Word: duking
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Died. Ian Douglas Campbell, 69, eleventh Duke of Argyll and hereditary chief of Scotland's clan Campbell; following a stroke; in Edinburgh. After succeeding to the dukedom in 1949, Campbell shocked his fellow peers by opening the family estate at Inveraray Castle to paying visitors, then appearing in a U.S. magazine ad campaign as a kilt-clad salesman for Argyll socks...
...musicians were of many Black musical persuasions, yet their different sounds have one commonality--rhythm, the gift from Africa. Rhythm is existence, the beating of a heart, the in-and ex-hale of breath. Rhythm is life. It has to be, for as Duke Ellington tells us, "a drum is a woman...
THURSDAY: The Miracle Worker. (1962) Patty Duke was the youngest actress ever to win an Oscar when at sixteen she played Helen Keller in this adaptation of William Gibson's play. CH. 56. 9 p.m. B-W. 2 hrs. Intruder in the Dust (1949) One of the better screen adaptations of Faulkner focuses on a young white's encounter with an old black Mississippian falsely accused of murder...
...touch pasteboard decks at Passover. Silk and cotton or plaited straw were inlaid into the cards to reproduce gay theatrical costumes in their original fabric, like the 17th century Pulcinello opposite. The superb min-chiate (or tarot) cards done in the 15th century by Bonifacio Bembo for Filippo Visconti, Duke of Milan, are so elaborate in their detailed painting, embossment and gilding that they could seldom, if ever, have been used...
...last 40 years, migrating north to Chicago and later New York and finally exploding world-wide on records. The jazz anyone plays today depends so much on what happened in those years--on the rise of overpowering soloists like Louis Armstrong, the big-city, big-band style of Duke Ellington, the bebop innovations of Charlie Parker, even the European heritage brought in more and more by the Modern Jazz Quartet--that, while young musicians can strive toward a self-consciously primitive jazz style, they cannot duplicate the attitude and style of the working-class men who, in the first quarter...