Word: likes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprise, the festival's standout was the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Blending classical and jazz traditions with a masterful touch, Milhaud-trained Pianist Brubeck (TIME cover, Nov. 8, 1954) and his mates (Eugene Wright on bass, Joe Morello on drums, Paul Desmond on alto sax) made each number sound like a theme and variations. The quartet usually started with well-known tunes (These Foolish Things, St. Louis Blues), then varied the tempo (from 4/4 to 5/4 and back to 3/4) as it injected its own sometimes loud, sometimes soft designs. The solo lead flew like a badminton bird from...
...Modern Jazz Quartet, a fine, precise team of arrangement-conscious musicians led by Pianist John Lewis, who make jazz sound like a 19th century tone poem. With a sharp, clear vibes, a versatile piano, a bass and a set of traps, the quartet warmed up with a cool version of I'll Remember April, approached mastery in its last offering, a three-part number (The Singer, Harlequin, Contessa) delivered in a boogie-woogie, bass-led tempo and highlighted by an atonal, polyphonic piano...
Many educators would like to see the cutoff point raised from the current U.S. average of 5 years 9 months to about 5 years 11 months. They explain that the younger the child the less his chances of adjusting to first-grade work; early failure at the blackboard can induce a defeatist attitude that endures for years. Physically as well as mentally, say the educators, waiting is wise. Studies have shown that four out of five children are still normally farsighted at the age of six, are handicapped in reading until about six months later. But these arguments...
...West Point, students will increase work in the humanities by about 15% this fall. Vocational courses such as map reading and graphics will be clipped enough to increase classes in the social sciences by ten minutes each. But like Annapolis, West Point will continue to emphasize science (62% of the nonmilitary curriculum). This year West Point will boost studies in nuclear physics, electronics, the effects of radiation. Plebes who are tops in mathematics will leapfrog into advanced subjects, e.g., vector analysis...
...most popular of the moderns, Kiyoshi Saito, 52, has achieved a success almost worthy of the top Ukiyo-e artists. In 1955 he exhibited 67 of his pieces in the U.S., in a grand gesture gave them all to the University of Michigan. In debt, like most of his contemporaries, to Western influence and a Western audience, Saito lately visited ancient Kyoto to recapture special Japanese qualities he feels his works lack, ruefully muses: "We have lost our Japanese origins. I keep on going to Kyoto to try to rediscover them." But to a Western eye, his origins are unmistakable...