Word: hunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form is so tight and so simple that players led by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Guiffre and others have abandoned it to hunt down a more satisfying freedom. Coleman and Guiffre both now play atonal jazz, and Miles Davis defected with his discovery of the "interlude," a four-or eight-bar figure laced into a song between phrases. Davis sometimes plays one dominant chord throughout a 16-bar interlude, making only rhythmic variations. Elvin Jones, the most richly inventive of the modern drummers, plays highly abstract polyrhythms that leave the old eight-to-the-bar style...
Then the horde struck--30 egg-hunters armed with wastebaskets, straw boxes, pocketbooks, hat boxes and paper bags, all intent on winning the first annual North House Easter egg hunt...
...three young winners were all foreigners, and each conducted in a distinctive style-The Athlete, The Professor. The Sailor. They were the prize trophies of the most elaborate conductor-hunt ever staged, and when they closed the second Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition at Carnegie Hall last week, the vigor and variety of their art made the contest's logarithmic complexity seem thoroughly worthwhile...
...absence of a golf course on campus forces the golfers to make possibly the strangest playing arrangements of any Harvard team. For home matches, the team will have to play visiting schools at Myopia Hunt Club, a full 50 miles away...
...with the Hunt. Not everybody agreed with the crowd. In Miami, where the fight was on closed-circuit TV, Sonny Liston smiled at the catcalls. "He won it," said Liston. "It was Clay's fight." Did Cassius show him anything? Replied Liston: "He showed me I'll get locked up for murder if I fight him." Some sportswriters agreed. Feeling that they had been fooled, they turned on Cassius. He had no punch, no stamina, no stomach for the likes of Liston. they said. Others spotted nuggets of greatness. Work, they decided, clean living, experience-given these, Clay...