Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lost Outline. In fact, Durrell learns from both Miller and living, as he develops into the man who could write the intricately lyrical Alexandria Quartet novels. Miller admires Durrell generously, but learns nothing from him and remains his own adolescent. The young Durrell revised The Black Book for the fourth time in a manful effort to "demillerise it." But when Miller's Sexus was published, Durrell cabled him: "SEXUS DISGRACEFULLY BAD WILL COMPLETELY RUIN REPUTATION UNLESS WITHDRAWN REVISED." In an accompanying letter, he scolded his master: "The moral vulgarity of so much of it is artistically painful...
...winning streak running from their last loss, the Yale meet of two years ago. This year, their principal competition has come from Princeton, which the Crimson downed in an exciting meet last Saturday. The meet was undecided until the final 400-yard freestyle relay, where the fresh and powerful quartet of Dennis Hunter, Dave Bennett, Gregg Akalinder, and Alan Engelberg swam to an impressive 3:21.3 first place, to settle the meet...
...first event of the day, the 400-yard medley relay, the quartet of John Pringle, Porky Pitts, Alan Engelberg and David Bennett easily outdistanced their Big Red counterparts in a time...
Monk's Dream (Thelonious Monk Quartet; Columbia) is also a jazz listener's dream. In his first recording in years, Monk sounds better than ever. His new compositions still display the wonders of his imagination, but much of his old cliff-hanging love of anti-melody has disappeared. His quartet is competent, but hardly in his league...
...Jeru" (Gerry Mulligan; Columbia) is Miles Davis' nickname for Mulligan, and it casts an appropriate in-group mood for the album. Mulligan aficionados will be astonished to hear a piano in the quartet behind him-a direct violation of Mulligan's long boycott of pianists. But the man playing it here is Tommy Flanagan, and keeping Flanagan off a record is like keeping Willie Mays in the dugout. Alec Dorsey's congo drumming is a nuisance...