Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present Crimson squad thus represents the first full harvest of the new generation. Tonight's roster of seven seniors, six juniors, and four sophomores is an almost perfect distribution of leadership, experience, and fresh talent...
Criticism is "one of the things that goes with the job," but Johnson added: "I think the time has come when it would be good for all of us to take a new, fresh look at dissent. We welcome responsible dissent. There is a difference between constructive dissent and storm-trooper bullying, howling and taking the law into their own hands...
...there was more bitter medicine to swallow than devaluation. In order to back up devaluation with financial muscle, Britain not only had to go hat in hand to the International Monetary Fund (to which it already owes $1.4 billion) to ask for a fresh drawing of $1.4 billion, but also had to arrange a multinational loan of $1.6 billion from its partners, thus creating a new $3 billion support package in order to prevent the total collapse of the pound. To back up its action, the government raised the interest rate from 61% to 8% in order to attract foreign...
Apart from a probing sketch of Dorsey, Simon provides little that is fresh on such familiar figures as Miller, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington, but he gives appropriate recognition to some of the brilliant though now largely forgotten ensembles of the period: the sizzling band headed by tiny, hunchbacked Drummer Chick Webb, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, which triumphed at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in a 1937 battle of the bands with Goodman's group; the lush, colorfully textured Claude Thornhill band; the showmanlike Jimmie Lunceford unit, whose buoyant two-beat style influenced such latter-day bands as Billy...
Album covers line the near wall. The Electric Prunes, Surrealistic Pillow, Fresh Cream, The Grateful Dead--all call out in glaring psychedelic script. Yet there was something in that ancient face of 36 years, smiling weakly in the shadows, that recalls a younger, simpler time...