Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Solal's American visit (six weeks at the Hickory House and a spot at the Newport Jazz Festival) is a tardy reward for a quietly brilliant career. He grew up in Algiers and first heard jazz when the G.I. radio followed soon after the American landings. For years he struggled to play precisely like Art Tatum, but when he came to Paris in 1950, he took off on his own. "I should try to make music that has much to say," he resolved, and with that he started serious study...
...valuable precept in moral education than this, as all who have experience know: if we wish to conquer undesirable emotional tendencies in ourselves, we must assiduously, and in the first instance cold-bloodedly, go through the out-ward movements of those contrary dispositions which we prefer to cultivate. The reward of persistency will infallibly come in the fading out of the sullenness or depression, and the advent of real cheerfulness and kindliness in their stead. Smooth the brow, brighten the eye, contract the dorsal rather than the ventral aspect of the frame, and speak in a major key, pass...
...travails of the South, an integrationist postman named William Moore, walking from Chattanooga, Tenn. to Jackson, Miss, to protest segregation, was shot and killed on a lonely Alabama highway. President Kennedy called the slaying an ''outrageous crime," and Alabama's Wallace offered a $1,000 reward for the murderer's capture...
...Cabinet shows no surprise choices, but Yvon Dupuis, M.P. from St. Jean-Iberville-Napierville was no ticeably absent. Since Dupuis successfully led the Liberal campaign in the key province of Quebec, many expected that Pearson would reward him with a Cabinet appointment...
...everything turn to ashes in his mouth? No sirree. Another day, and Cassius was back home in Louisville, hurrying over to Standard Cadillac Co. to collect his reward. He rushed into the showroom, flung his arms high, and shouted: "Tomato-red Cadillac convertible, I am here!" Tomato-red Eldorado wasn't there, and there wasn't one in all of Louisville. But it will be, and in the meantime Cassius could console himself with his $13,500 out of the purse and $10,000 from the 38-city telecast...