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Word: finks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pianist Allen got the idea for the album when he heard Alto Saxophonist Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley insist on TV one evening that jazz criticism is "a joke." Allen scribbled several funky tunes (Hackensack Train, Fink's Mules, Too Fat Boogie) and recorded them as the work of Pianist-Composer Hammer. He tricked up some of the tracks by recording first the bass, then the upper register and gluing them together. Under a second assumed name - Ralph Goldman - he wrote some typically pretentious liner notes: "Like Peck Kelly of Texas and Joe Abernathy of New York, Hammer has become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Secret Life of B. Hammer | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...M.D.C. has already begun plans for widening the road between Memorial Drive and Fresh Pond Parkway. Chief Engineer Benjamin W. Fink said last night that these plans will have no effect upon the fate of the Hell's Half Acre area...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: State Plans No Highway Across Hell's Half Acre | 1/7/1958 | See Source »

Richard M. Fink, teaching fellow in Government and in General Education called the handwriting on some exams "abominable" but noted that "penmanship is a lost art anyway." He said that one student had to read his exam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Section Men Criticize Handwriting on Exams | 2/8/1957 | See Source »

This feeling was echoed by Barry, who foresaw "unfavorable" public reaction if the plan should be adopted. Benjamin Fink, chief park engineer, thought that students themselves would complain if the riverbank were to be made into a parking lot, and considered the idea neither possible nor feasible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parking Lots Near Charles Are Possible | 12/1/1956 | See Source »

...startling Crucifixion by Abbey Scholarship Winner Thomas H. Dehill Jr., 31, of Cambridge. In Paris Mrs. Halpert found young Americans hemmed in by high costs and an abstractionist syndrome, but she spotted some work she liked, including the clouded-in abstractions of Duluth, Minn. Artist Don Fink, 33, and the bright, exuberant March Yellow by Fulbrighter John Freed, 25, of Oklahoma City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Young Americans Abroad | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

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