Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typical local meeting is deadly dull and poorly attended. Members generally wear slacks and sport shirts, including bowling-and softball-league shirts for many who can hardly wait to get out of the hall and on to an avocation that is as often as not company-sponsored. (Another style note: for reasons that might require the services of a mass psychologist, the old white cotton sock has given way in Pittsburgh to one of cardinal red.) No local leader will schedule a meeting in conflict with a really popular TV program unless he deliberately wants to keep attendance down. Observes...
...markets," branching out from old-line industries, and that is not always easy. Some complain that the electronics industry, for one, is mobile to the point of being nomadic and therefore hard to organize. When one union was contemplating organizing insurance company employees, the union paper struck a note of comic despair: "Can you imagine the national reaction to a strike of insurance salesmen?" Some labor leaders expect to develop new forms of cooperation with management, such as the industry-wide boards that already function in steel and coal...
Even more than tenors who try to upstage her, Diva Joan Sutherland dislikes reporters who crowd her. Last week La Stupenda, as her fans call her, hit a low note in her relations with the press...
ANDREW HILL: POINT OF DEPARTURE (Blue Note). This is a highly individualistic combo with a strong visceral sound. The standout is the late saxophonist Eric Dolphy, who easily steals the record from Hill with searingly emotional solos, and stimulates Joe Henderson (tenor sax), Kenny Dorham (trumpet) and Richard Davis (bass). Hill believes in arrangements that give free rein to his musicians' personalities and their ways of extemporizing; on this disk he has achieved a memorable ensemble...
...That was too little to satisfy the infuriated Dodgers. "What if he had gone out on the street and clubbed somebody?" demanded one. "He'd have been arrested. It should be a suspension of 1,750 days." Giles granted that Marichal's attack was "repugnant," but took note of mitigating circumstances-"underlying currents," he called them...