Word: milford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most recent example of this meager performance record was, of course, the irresponsible (and ultimately ineffective) opposition of the Democratic majority in the General Court to the Governor's sales tax plan. In the House, Majority Leader John F.X. Davoren (D-Milford) pledged to oppose the sales tax, but offered no reasonable alternative. In the Senate, President Maurice Donahue (D-Holyoke) continued to oppose the measure until long after all of the substitute measures had been killed. By the end of the battle, almost half of Donahue's supporters, disillusioned with his delaying tactics, deserted him. The image...
...stinging defeats recently administered to the income tax revision plans, political experts across the state are now convinced that the only tax plan that can win approval is the Governor's. There are no longer any alternatives. The halfhearted manner in which House Speaker John F. X. Davoren (D-Milford) led the opposition to the latest sales tax proposal is characteristic of this new attitude. In the words of Rep. James H. Kelly (D-Boston), the leadership "was just going through the motions" in opposing the bill...
...Drummer Milford Graves played too loud, and should be harnessed. But what he plays is damn good. Talk about technique. You have to get rhythms from the accented strokes, because the slowest he got the whole night was about what would normally be called a "roll...
...first with the Charles Mingus group, I believe, that people began commenting on a drummer using counter-subjects while other instruments were playing their choruses. This was because Mingus carried the beat so strongly on the bass. But with the need for a beat gone, Milford Graves could improvise constantly, as he did so successfully in "Sonnet." At one point, where "Sonnet" became very contrapuntal, I was getting that same exciting feeling you sometimes get with Baroque music: feeling three voices going in different directions--hearing the independent movement of each--and hearing a good total sound simultaneously...
...liable for damages? "The Town of Milford took the position that the first-floor hens died in Amherst, the damage was therefore done there, so Amherst should pay. Amherst took the position that the fuss started in the Milford end and, anyway, the second-floor chickens, though they started their, flight in Amherst, nevertheless died in the Milford end, and therefore Milford should...