Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ZORBA. Producer-Director Harold Prince has turned out a brassy bit of Broadwayana that is as far from the Mediterranean basin as is Shubert Alley. Herschel Bernardi is never really possessed by the role of the grizzled Dionysian pagan, and the bouzouki music sounds as if it were piped in by Muzak...
...with so many of his glittering hopes broken, Johnson makes his farewells, grinds through the last budget, the final State of the Union message. He gleans what satisfaction he can by recalling victories in Congress, his associations spanning three decades, his joy over the last moon shot. String music, champagne and nostalgia warm the waning days. "I love Washington," he said last week. "I love this capital...
...lower-class whites, this influx has aroused the full range of reactions that accompany any major wave of immigration anywhere. Cockney housewives grimace at pungent cooking odors wafting from Indian kitchens, and early-to-bed British workingmen complain of being kept awake all night by twanging West Indian music. Since immigrant shopkeepers are willing to keep longer hours, white merchants resent the competition. More seriously, the immigrants vie for low-cost housing, which is scarce in Britain. Unwelcome in many localities, the new minority groups cluster together and overcrowd their neighborhoods, forcing out white families. Since most immigrants are raising...
...Sunday drive. Radios were primitive; sales of Atwater Kents and RCA Radiolas only began to climb when magazine ads of the '20s proclaimed that "the thrill of radio is no longer in getting 50 stations in a night, for radio has now conquered distance and turns to music...
WHRB will also honor the memory of King with a special concert scheduled tonight about 9:30 p.m. The program will include some of King's most important speeches and writings, as well as thematically keyed music selections...