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...life in New York. Changing meters, unique harmonies and oddly voiced chords create the effect of a desperate conversation in some other language, a fit of drunken laughter, a shout from a park at night. His melodies make mocking twins of naivete and cynicism, of ridicule and fond memory. Ruby, My Dear and Nutty are likably simple; Off Minor and Trinkle Tinkle are so complex that among pianists only Monk and his early protege, Bud Powell, have been able to improvise freely upon them...
...pools and some restaurants and hotels. Only recently, May or Ivan Allen Jr. testified in Washington in behalf of a federal public-accommodations law. Negro and white leaders for years kept communications open and helped each other resolve many potentially dangerous situations. Atlanta's white leaders especially were fond of boasting about the city's pioneer work in race relations, its enlightened atmosphere, its sweet and easy black and white common sense...
...Sears." Inside the company, Cushman is not so reticent. Unlike retired Predecessor Charles H. Kellstadt, whose job he took over two years ago, Cushman delegates responsibility liberally and treats subordinates genially, but keeps a cold eye on profit and loss reports. "Men, merchandise, methods and money," he is fond of saying, "are the four Ms of Sears. Men come first...
Pride & Potentates. Sound in conception, the idea has often proved severely flawed in execution. The U.S. now doles out economic aid to 100-odd nations in an often unselective, incoherent program that Congressmen are fond of calling a boondoggle. Instead of paying for development, countless U.S. aid dollars have paid for jet planes to please a foreign potentate, or uneconomic steel mills to satisfy a new nation's sense of pride...
...tragedy of Emma Lavinia Gifford, as she repeatedly confided to her diary, was that she married a man beneath her. He was a writer of sorts, but so was she; and when callers such as Ford Madox Ford and Sir Edmund Gosse dropped around, she was fond of pulling out her poems and rattling off lines like these...