Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where he took charge of the American desk of the Soviet Foreign Ministry. A tall Ukrainian with receding, slightly greying hair, Dobrynin, 42, will be the first Soviet envoy to the U.S. who was born after the Russian revolution; in the youthful climate of present-day Washington, he should fit in well as a liudi novykh granits - or Soviet-style New Frontiersman...
Seasickness v. Bach. To gird for the New Frontier. Romagna endlessly replayed tapes of the Kennedy-Nixon TV debates, worked up an assortment of new shorthand symbols to fit New Frontier talk. One graceful jiggle of the Romagna pen, for example, expands into 13 words...
...brittle," revered by women who revere desserts more, today's model is as much as and no more than her well-disciplined face and body; she is another accessory to the dress she displays, as silent and secondary as the shoes and gloves. If the dress does not fit, the model is made to conform (hairspray cans are tucked in the backs of loose waistlines to take up the slack; tissue paper is stuffed into brassieres to fill out bust lines...
...blues is a collective noun. All explanations of blues seem to begin "The blues is...." Perhaps it should be left at that. Verve has seen fit to release the last recording sessions of Big Bill Broonzy on three single albums. A big voice, a big guitar, and a big rhythm often serve to hide a lack of feeling in a blues singer, but here they serve only to enhance an already powerful emotive force. The Reverend Gary Davis, blind "street singer," has a new release on the Prestige Bluesville label, which is a total gas because the man plays guitar...
...brought to jazz material. I strongly recommend The World of Alcina (Atlantic 1241) and School of Rebellion (Roulette 52063) if you are willing to listen carefully and then re-listen. The same might be said of George Russell, who has worked out his own enlargement of tonality to fit the needs of the improvising jazzman. Jazz in the Space Age (Decca 9219) contains his most immediately appealing work, full of superb improvising by Bill Evans and others...