Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus, older jazz musicians today no longer hesitate to participate in the evolutionary process. Zoot Sims, 50, the veteran tenor saxophonist, now straddles all styles. Benny Carter, 68, has lent the silken sounds of his alto sax to the torchy voice of thirtyish pop singer Maria Muldaur. Drummer Grady Tate, 44, pounds out extraordinary admixtures of jazz beats and shifting, rocky rhythms...
What is fascinating is to see a man who is introduced as almost a parody of the chauvinistic mode brought to a near-adolescent state in which increasingly erratic behavior is determined by vio lent waves of emotion that he cannot comprehend, let alone control. At one point he is found trying to enlist his child (no more than six or seven years old) to plead the cause of reconciliation with her mother. A moment later he is marrying a vaguely pleasant young English woman, and a moment after that he is arranging to meet his former wife accidentally...
...Center for the Performing Arts, and holding a party for the Fords at the Spanish embassy, Juan Carlos and his blonde Queen jetted to New York for the windup of their four-day visit. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they inaugurated a display of eight Goyas that were lent by Madrid's Prado, including both naked and clothed Majas. In Fort Greene Park, across the East River, Juan Carlos presented a bronze plaque at the monument to the Brooklyn Martyrs-the 12,000 men who died aboard British prison ships in nearby Wallabout Bay during the Revolutionary...
...Watson-pleased almost everyone. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution happily accounted for Holmes' whereabouts after he was supposedly drowned in the Reichenbach Falls. He was, of course, breaking his cocaine habit under the tutelage of Sigmund Freud. The pairing of these two clue masters on one case lent Meyer's pastiche a glittering patina of ought-to-have-been. Alas, Meyer has "found" yet another of Watson's tales, and it should not have happened to anyone...
Nancy Copeland, administrative assistant in the University library, said that the dedication, which is by invitation only, will include brief speeches by President Bok, library officials, architects and former President Nathan M. Pusey '28, who lent his name to the underground library...