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...just begun to make a name for himself as a solo musician. Django was already famous throughout Europe. A gypsy by birth, Django was the first great jazz guitarist. He revolutionized guitar technique. He had lost two left-hand fingers early in his life. This handicap led him to invent new ways of playing and resulted in new sounds, new progressions, and new rhythms. Grapelli's swinging, raggy violin worked well with Reinhardt's rhythmic guitar style. The two were a smash hit throughout Europe. They played Le Hot Club together for years before either of them came to this...

Author: By Scott A. Kripke, | Title: No Drowning in the Mainstream | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

...Invent some "yesable propositions"--Suggest some actions they might conceivably be expected to take that would at least help solve the conflict. These proposals cannot be in the form of "You should do something about your army," but should be specific enough so that merely saying "yes" to them paves the way for the action to be undertaken...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Coping With Conflict | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

Speaking before about 30 people at Harvard's Afro-American Center, Wright said white Americans know nothing about blacks and so they have had to invent "legends about them which have seeped into the judicial system...

Author: By Marin J. Strmecki, | Title: New York City Judge Attacks Racism in U.S. Court System | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...rock group, and what was more interesting, they had an idea: the use of computers in games. Invited back, they brought a working model of the gadget that became Code Name: Sector. Doyle wants to make a million dollars so he can afford to write books on astronomy and invent on the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Games People Play: 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...revolution. "When I first began writing," recalls Le Carré, "Fleming was riding high, and the picture of the spy was that of a character who could lay the women, and drive the fast car, who used gadgetry and gimmickry and escape. When I brought back, but did not invent, the realistic spy story, it was misinterpreted as a great new wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Who Came In for the Gold | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

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