Word: jam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm message to Congress last week. President Kennedy sounded a bit like a doctor who, noting that the patient suffers from cramps and rashes after eating strawberries, advises him to eat plenty of strawberry jam...
Jazz is no newcomer to the U.S.S.R. It has just been on a long vacation. In 1925 pudgy New Orleans Saxophonist Sidney Bechet gave Moscow its first jam session, so enthralled a young music student named Aleksandr Tsfasman that he quit Moscow Conservatory, formed his own combo, took to wearing green and maroon suits. Even the stolid Soviet government got into the act. It formed a 43-piece U.S.S.R. Jazz Band, released top Trumpeter Andrei Gorin from prison (his crime: insulting a Communist Party official), ordered him onto the bandstand. Then, as abruptly as it began, the jazz era died...
...About Eve. He did not jam his spaces with entangled and interlaced figures as was the habit in those days. He left room in between to permit shadow to play upon the relief. No contemporary had his gift with drapery; each figure's clothes mold the body while the spiraling folds and pleats seem in places to hang as if the stone were gossamer, in other places to billow before the wind. According to Expert Zarnecki, the Gislebertus touch was copied by anonymous artists in other churches of the 12th century. But whatever his influence, his work at Autun...
Eliot Fears Traffic Jam...
...young narrator is simply trying to get a job as a longshoreman on the New York waterfront. But as anyone who has seen the film On the Waterfront knows, when the men jam up at the hiring hall, it is not that simple. The hiring agent may point at Joe or he may give the nod to Frank. Each day the men come back, some hoping for work, some not caring since their mere presence means that they qualify for unemployment insurance...