Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...studied sophistication that might be called "hybrid Soul." They are backed up by an outfit that sounds like a cross between the Vienna Philharmonic, Herb Alpert and an electrified Gene Autry. The occasional catch in the throat and sad hoot do not a soul sound make, but the music is entirely inoffensive. Besides, the cover photograph depicting The Temptations as utterly defeated Foreign Legionnaires has to be the funniest of the year...
...finally people have learned to understand the Negro's music [June 28] why the hell can't they understand the man or woman who's singing it? Soul music is not something that just came on the scene, it has been here since the black man came to America; it started way back in those cotton fields in Mississippi, Georgia, etc. That was all we had, when we were out in the hot sun picking cotton; finally a nice cool breeze came and you just had to let someone know that you had the feeling...
...clashes began after 500 leftist students announced their plans to occupy an unused downtown department store, which they hoped to convert into a with-it club for evenings of pop music and hippie happenings. Conservative city fathers decided that the heart of Zurich's hallowed banking section, from which the city's famous Gnomes conduct their mysterious business, was no place for such a frivolous establishment. The students arrived to find the department store ringed with police...
Commercials or a great many of them are better than ever. How and why this came about is one of the more fascinating phenomena in television. They are part of the background music, as it were, of the American scene. Hardly anybody pays total attention to them; hardly anybody totally ignores them. Many, the very good and the very bad, force or insinuate themselves into the imagination. Even a reluctant viewer cannot quite resist the euphoria induced by airline ads that waft him up up and away, or travel spots, island-hopping in a wink of quick cuts, that drop...
Many of Karr's techniques are self-taught. Raised in a musical family in which the father, grandfather, two uncles and three cousins all played the bass, he took up the instrument at nine "without even knowing there were other instruments." He made such rapid progress that he soon ranged beyond the conventional approach to the bass. He studied with a cellist, a pianist and even with Singer Jennie Tourel ("the greatest influence on my phrasing and musical ideas"). After a 1962 appearance in one of Leonard Bernstein's televised Young People's Concerts, he started...