Word: nats
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...Although Goldfeder, Pensler, and Podolsky may be rookies on the collegiate level, each arrived on campus accomplished in club and junior national competition. Goldfeder began fencing when she was seven and competed throughout high school for the Rochester Fencing Club. The club’s head coach, Nat Goodhartz, is also one of the head coaches of the U.S. women’s national team. Pensler, who hails from Chicago, Ill., picked up fencing at age 10 after watching her younger brother try it out. She soon found out the heavy toll her new sport took on her body...
...styles and physicality of performers like drummer "Big Sid" Catlett (whose "huge hands ... reduced the drumsticks to pencils") and trumpeter "Doc" Cheatham (whose solos were "a succession of lines, steps, curves, parabolas, angles and elevations"). Defining his role as appreciative witness as opposed to stern judge, he and writer Nat Hentoff in 1957 put together TV's The Sound of Jazz, which showcased Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk and others in what are now deemed some of the finest performances in jazz history...
...Nat King Cole, The Magic of Christmas, 1950s...
...this collection, which was everybody's second Christmas album. (You couldn't play Bing all the time.) Like Crosby, Cole mixed the religious and the secular songs, his vocals lending a silky cohesion to the enterprise. Best remembered is "The Christmas Song," by Robert Allen and Mel Torme, which Nat first recorded in 1946 and made his own. He had us at "chestnuts...
...tolerate) only one Christmas album, this is it. Among the 17 tracks are Bing's "White Christmas," Elvis' "Blue Christmas," Nat's "The Christmas Song," Johnny's "Sleigh Ride," Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby," Sarah MacLachlan's "Song for a Winter's Night" and, to go out on a note of heartbreak, Judy Garland's original of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." We'll be playing this one forever, if the fates allow...