Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-flavored and with the angularities gone. The slower selections such as All of Me sometimes lose their way, but Pianist Wilson swings through the propulsive numbers-Sweet Georgia Brown, Smile, Limehouse Blues-with fine buoyancy and the amiable air of a man who could not utter a harsh note if he tried...
...Clutch of the Law. In Milwaukee, James Godsey, 24, fed up with his balky car and ten parking tickets, left this note tucked under the windshield wiper: "Mr. Policeman, the keys are in the car; I can't get it started, and you can have...
...that peeresses will sit in Westminster, any talk about abolishing the House of Lords should be quickly quashed. By recognizing the other sex, the Lords have redemonstrated their vigor. Duchesses and marchionesses will probably inject a more humane note into arguments on hunting rights and capital punishment...
Patchen backed by jazz is something else. The jazzmen, led by Allyn Ferguson (who wrote the note on the jacket and was considerate enough to quote himself at one point), seem competent enough, but the effect of the two working on each other destroys more than it gives. Words blot out the music, and, as they say, vice versa. Patchen claims to have thought up jazz and poetry, love and marriage. Kenneth Rexroth, across the street and down the hill, claims the same thing. They both would do well to forget the unhappy, er, nuptuals...
...member of the family whose members have killed the father and brother of the Bridegroom. Torn with passion that can never lawfully be gratified, she runs away with her lover immediately after the wedding. The play marches on through to fulfilment and the threnody at the end with a note of inevitability, as if the poet felt that no one was to blame, but that everything had been ordained by fate...