Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The uprising that began when Louis Armstrong blew his first hot notes grew into a revolution. Continually shifting--Big Band, bebop, cool--and propelled by the sorcery of improvisation, jazz absorbs, transforms, discards, but always replenishes itself. Here are some of the other cats who made things swing.
The second great upheaval was the 1960s. Again, a rupture opened with the past; received standards and values were under siege, this time in the ferment of civil rights, the sexual revolution and Vietnam. In the arts the rumbling had started in the '50s, when Elvis Presley got everybody all...
As the MLS season began, McLaughlin foundhimself unsigned, without a roster spot andlooking forward to final exams. But Tommy Mac wasdetermined to work his way into professionalsoccer. In the midst of final exams, he shuttledhimself daily from Harvard to the Revolution'spractices at Babson College, often having toborrow friends' cars...
That self-confidence must have helpedMcLaughlin impress Rongen. On a bus ride home froman A-league scrimmage in Connecticut, Rongencalled McLaughlin to the front of the bus and madehim an offer he couldn't refuse. Rongen toldMcLaughlin to forget about playing A-league,because the Revolution wanted him on its...
Luckily McLaughlin was not willing to wait, andthe Revolution did not have to. In sporadicpractices during a hectic schedule, McLaughlin wasable to show Rongen and the rest of theRevolution's coaching staff that he was ready tostep in and contribute. But that should come as nosurprise to Harvard fans who...