Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brad Gowans and His New York Nine (Victor LP). Dixieland of 1946, a mellow but not a vintage year. Gowans is probably the leading exponent of hot valve trombone; his playing is matched by Billy Butterfield's fine trumpet. Notable as the last recording by the late great drummer Dave Tough...
...seen them come and go, be good and bad. but the school system rolls right along." Last week, as 65-year-old Superintendent Stoddard ended his long career and made ready to move to the side of the road. L.A. was still rolling, largely because of the mellow optimist who could take things in his stride...
Once upon a time, back in the Gay 90s, a barbershop was a place where mustachioed blades could hang out and sing together in mellow harmony. What happened? The mudpack and the facial, the manicure, new-fangled tonics, lotions and powders, whirring electrical scalp treatments-and the barbershop quartet became a sentimental memory. Then, in 1938, a song-happy Tulsa tax attorney (and baritone) named Owen C. Cash organized the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. Amateur singers flocked to join the society (25,000 members in 615 chapters in the U.S., Hawaii...
...whole, 318 is a good buy, primarily because it contains so much material. In future years, the sections written for the present will be forgotten, and readers will probably mellow toward some of its other faults...
...change is perhaps due to the aging of the writer (he is a mellow 55), perhaps to the aging of the age. All Quiet was dedicated to a simple proposition: war is hateful, and the best way to prevent it is to hate it enough. It glowed with a kind of sentimentality in reverse. A quarter century later, that stalwart faith has come to seem as old-fashioned and disappointing as the generation that held...