Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...multiple of 4. It is usually in 4/4 time but it can be fitted to other rhythm patterns as well. There is a Blues chromatism or Blues scale which has African origins and differs from the West European scale. In order to play the correct Blues notes it is necessary to bend or flatten certain notes. This is achieved in different ways on different instruments. On the guitar the Blues notes are played by bending the strings which raises the note up a quarter tone into the Blues scale...
Divorces are hardly news in the cinema world. But when Star Alain Delon and his svelte wife Nathalie came to a final parting last week on the grounds of "serious mutual insult," a great many people found the event worthy of special note as the latest and inevitable in stallment in one of those long-running scandals that Paris so cherishes. Last week Nathalie was in Rome making a new movie, and Alain was before the cameras in Paris. For months, however, both have been the cause of a cause celebre that has everything - sex, politics, murder and decadence...
...demands by taking over classes in psychology, political science and literature from regular teachers and delivering their own black-oriented lectures. After meeting with the dissidents, Dean of Students Lawrence Silverman announced that he had negotiated a truce, but the students evidently felt otherwise. They sent Silverman a note declaring their intention to continue disrupting classes "by any means necessary," then made good their threat by taking over a history class the very next day. Having warned them that further disruptions could lead to expulsion, Silverman must now prepare to take action against the defiant students...
Anouilh's The Rehearsal opens amid a flurry of epigrams and bon mots, ends on a wintry note of bitter despair. Doing so, it settled into a little too much mawkishness for may taste. The direction, though, by Michael Murray, was superb. The first act and a half--free of the play's pathos--is a streamlined French farce, wittily delivered and swiftly played...
Kissinger was already consultant to the director of the NSC's Psychological Strategy Board. Nelson Rockefeller took him on in 1956 as director of special Rockefeller Brothers Fund studies. Though Nixon read Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy and sent Kissinger an admiring note, the two met only a year ago at a Christmas party. "We both hate cocktail parties," Kissinger recalls, "and we were both trying to avoid making small talk." When Nixon moved into the Oval Office, Kissinger found himself close by in the White House basement. They have had no difficulty avoiding small talk...