Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works of several composers, some famed, most of them forgotten-Tielman Susato, Giovanni Gabrieli, Antony Hoiborne, Johann Petzold, Henry Purcell. The burnished sound is properly refulgent, and the flowering, agile compositions themselves will come as a pleasant surprise to many a listener accustomed to the statelier, stuffier uses of modern brass...
...plastic-topped tables and rachitic chairs crowd the floor. The capacity, when everyone is inhaling, comes close to 200, and strangely, the crowd is always close to capacity. This week the Black Hawk is edging into its tenth year as one of the nation's top resorts for modern jazz, the club that launched such cool cats as Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan. Says CoOwner Guido Caccienti: "I've struggled for years to keep this place a sewer...
...partisans hark back to the Hasidim (pious ones) who flourished in 18th century Poland. But unlike other modern Hasidic sects-which are devoted to a kind of cheerful mysticism and have no objections to Israel-Teitelbaum's followers are fanatically opposed to most aspects of modern life, including military service, voting, movies and TV, mixed gatherings of men and women. They live in self-imposed ghettos, speak only Yiddish since they consider Hebrew sacred and reserved for prayers. Their opposition to Israel rests on two beliefs: 1) only the Messiah can establish a Jewish state, and any human attempt...
...Modern-day featherbedding got its grip on industry as labor's answer to oldtime management abuses such as the speedup, spread far and wide during World War II's crash production and cost-plus contracts. It is by no means an American phenomenon; featherbedding pervades many segments of labor in foreign countries, is often disguised behind the Iron Curtain to create the illusion of full employment...
High above downtown Rio de Janeiro, in the hilly Santa Teresa district, a chauffeured Oldsmobile last week pulled up to a modern apartment building. As a pudgy, genial-looking man stepped out, English-speaking Brazilian Detective Sadoc Reis called out: "Hi, Lowell." "Fine," replied Lowell McAfee Birrell, 52, wanted in Manhattan on charges that he stole stock worth $14 million from two U.S. companies (TIME. July...