Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Instead, he hangs around on street corners tootling a pennywhistle. Lemmie leads his own celebrated band, the "Alexandra Junior Bright Boys," which started out playing for coppers, by now has made three hit records and gets featured billing at Johannesburg City Hall concerts. Reason: the haunting sound of pennywhistle jazz has become the favorite music of South Africa's slum-caged blacks-and of a great many white hipsters...
...value, and even necessity, of the arts is accepted as axiomatic, and serves as a clear example of the way in which Putney uses the community as an instrument of persuasion and education. Jazz was for a long while virtually non-existent, not because of any ban, but because the prevailing school opinion looked down upon it as a lower art form, if an art at all. But despite any opposition, there is hardly a single alumnus for whom classical music is not an important part of life. Music has been important principally because of the school's dynamic musical...
Hour after hour Joseph lay on his bed, listening to jazz records on his rusty phonograph and sweating his youth away in voluptuous fantasies of the city, where he would "be myself, be free, be cruel and be rich." But whenever he threatened to break out of the web, his mother would bind him tight again with a pernicious tissue of threats. "The day you leave here," she would sob self-pityingly, "I'm going to die!" As for Suzanne, she cleaned up the worms that fell from the diseased roof into the beds, into the food...
...bottom of your personality looking up." Says Kerouac: "I want God to show me His face." This might be more convincing if Kerouac's novels did not play devil's advocate by preaching, in effect, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of kicks," e.g., drink, drugs, jazz and chicks...
...would have helped considerably. The scholarships article is clearly written, but lists nary a dollars and cents figure and makes no mention of the loan program. The Student Employment story is trivial, and might well have been condensed into the scholarship story that had too many pictures anyhow. The "Jazz" article never gets with it, either in terms of music, style, or personalities. The "Harvard Science" feature begins like a melodramatic parody of Time magazine--"It was the year of the rocket. . . . It was the year of the sputnik. . ." The science item is rather confusing and its most distinctive trait...