Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freedom from interference by the Red Guards, negotiated by Chou Enlai, is now over. Some Sinologists think that Chou En-lai may indeed be in trouble with the Maoists, as the first round of last week's posters indicated, precisely because he counseled moderation rather than flat-out revolution in the first place. There are hints in the Chinese press that the police, who have so far scrupulously stayed out of what has essentially been a literary battle by poster, may soon be called into action to round up Mao's enemies...
...FLAT, G FLAT AND C (Impulse). The featured player is Yusef Lateef, who used to be plain William Evans, tenor saxophonist with Dizzy Gillespie. In the '50s, Evans changed his name, his faith (from Christian to Mohammedan), and the nature of his jazz, turning to such Middle Eastern instruments as the rebab and the arghool. Now he's headed farther east with The Chuen Blues, played on a three-stringed Chinese lute, and Kyoto Blues, on a Taiwan bamboo flute...
...late beloved wife, the millionaire instantly invites both Caine and MacLaine to dine in his private apartments, and after dinner is absurdly pleased to toddle off with Shirley on a tour of the Arab quarter. With the coast clear, Caine simply ducks back into the millionaire's flat and steals the priceless bust of a Ming empress...
...judge from such disgruntled commentary, the holiday season is not what it used to be in U.S. magazines. Good cheer has given way to gloom; the champagne has gone flat. Santa Claus has been replaced by a somber psychoanalyst with a bag full of cures for year-end anxieties. It would almost seem that publication schedules for the monthlies had forced year-end issues to be made up too far in advance; the festive mood may have been unattainable in plans made in July. To be sure, many magazines carried the familiar religious pictures and sentimental sermons. Yet McCall...
True, walls slanted like adobe slabs, windows were kept to narrow slits and the roof was flat. But Architect Kruger had proposed making a trim, circular building that resembled a massive beveled cogwheel. To historical buffs, it looked altogether too modern...