Word: prism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grundlichkeit. What accounts for Germany's jazz boom? In some respects, jazz merely reflects the Germans' traditional musicality through a new prism. Germans are also inveterate collectors and joiners, and jazz gives them a whole new field to operate in. One well-known collector has 7,000 records; another, who lost his treasure in the war, is famed for having painfully rebuilt the "only complete Bessie Smith collection in Europe." For the joiners, there is the Deutsche Jazz Federation, which has 4.000 members in its 70 local "Hot Clubs...
...Sahl, 32, was beginning to sound as healthy as his earnings, now running to more than $300,000 a year. Sahl, who delights in proving that almost all popular heroes have clay heads to match their feet, owned up to some personal idols. On his list: Mark Twain ("a prism through which the young country expressed itself"), Herman Melville ("he had scope and virility, didn't internalize"), Tom Paine, Albert Einstein, Edmund Wilson, Theseus, George Bernard Shaw. Allowing that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was "a father figure" to him, Sahl said that he regards Dwight Eisenhower as "a stepfather figure...