Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satire of the highly acclaimed Second City players. Negro Playwright (Raisin in the Sun) Lorraine Hansberry has great promise, and Negro Poetess Gwendolyn Brooks has won a Pulitzer Prize. The Chicago Symphony, once in a sorry state, now ranks among the nation's best. The nine-year-old Lyric Opera and scores of smaller music groups have faithful followings, while attendance at indoor art exhibitions has increased by more than 30% in the past few years; the Art Institute alone is visited by one million people annually...
...Cassius did, after all, win. His career is not over; he's still a promising contender. Those few experts who shoveled through Clay's Roman pomp and lyric poetry saw a young (21), inexperienced, unpolished, and unproved quantity...
...Ustinov) at 80 is confronted with himself at 60, 40, 20, and even as a baby. The four grown Sams share the stage together, and with all the amusing ironies of hindsight and foreknowledge relive key episodes in their communal life. Sam at 20 (John Horton) is an ardent lyric poet and marathon runner, at 40 (Donald Davis) a disgruntled fictional crafts man of obscure worst-sellers, at 60 (Dennis King) a rich, popular hack novelist and flagging voluptuary. Old Sam is still trying to learn the lesson of his life as the four Sams discuss marriage, mistresses, goals...
Make Someone Happy (Moodsville) blends the lyric charm of Coleman Hawkins' ancient saxophone with an almost perfect rhythm section: Tommy Flanagan, piano; Major Holey, bass; and Eddie Locke, drums. The result is indeed happy, proving, as it does, that The Hawk is still a master of the mellow, a professor of the placid...
...leader. Among new recordings, three of the best have one thing in common: Flanagan's uplifting presence. On Moodsville's Make Someone Happy, he is the artful tailor who sews up the holes in Coleman Hawkins' aged zoot suit; on Columbia's "Jem," he makes lyric corsages and pins them all on Gerry Mulligan; and on Riverside's new adventure with...