Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...podium to display the sweeping conducting technique reminiscent of Bernstein. But his imported hip-swinging was wasted on the musicians of the NHK. For 36 years they had served Germanic masters, who stylistically frown on conducting exertions more noticeable than an occasional swing of the index finger. The sight of the flailing young conductor reminded a critic of "a samurai warrior leading his men to battle." Soon the NHK ranks were brewing a mutiny. When the musicians said "Ozawa's full of air and showmanship, but little that's real art," he demanded apologies. Instead, he got fired...
Then Koufax's luck went sour. The index finger of his pitching hand turned white and numb; layers of skin began to peel off. Doctors decided he had Raynaud's Phenomenon, a circulatory ailment resulting from a blood clot in his palm. Unable even to grip a baseball properly, Koufax did not win another game all year...
...first look, Notes sounds like the disordered rambling of a demented candidate for a degree in universal knowledge who has tossed his index cards into the nearest bottle after emptying it at a gulp. His note writer is a nameless wanderer on a ship that finally founders in icy seas. The surface of his world is all history, held in an instantaneous, timeless memory where the flight of the Enola Gay over Hiroshima is contemporary with the imprisonment of Galileo, and where, for example, Nero might fiddle while Chicago burns. The depth he contemplates is the inexhaustible profundity of human...
...those years, in the shadow of the giants stood U.S. Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (pronounced Kee-kul), whom Governor Warren had appointed in 1952 to fill out Nixon's unexpired Senate term. An index of Kuchel's power was the makeup of the California delegation to the 1956 Republican Convention: Nixon, Knowland and Knight divided up the delegation, each taking 23 seats. The one remaining seat went to Kuchel...
Failing Fluff. In other words, a meaningful figure for a given season's profit or loss can only be determined some five or ten years later-not five or ten days before the season's end. A more immediate index is the attendance figures, which can be presented in almost complete form. Attendance this year has fallen off 8/10 of 1% from last year. It has not significantly changed over the past decade...