Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Health Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur thought she had one answer. The Health Ministry provided women with simple sets of beads and showed them how to keep track of the rhythm-green beads for "safe" days, black beads for "baby" days (TIME...
...whistles from the audience, Lillian strode to another microphone, picked up her trombone, and proceeded to blow monotone sounds through the brass tubing. The kids put front made such a hullabaloo, squealing, whistling and clapping in tempo, that they could not possibly hear anything more than the socking rhythm-but that was enough...
...usual in such cases, the U.N. mediator, Canada's Major General Edson L. M. Burns, respected as much for his toughness as for his patience, tried to get both sides together: the familiar rhythm in these flare-ups is violence met with violence and followed by quiet. But this time the rhythm was broken. Small groups of Arab raiders carried the fight deep into Israel. Known as Al Fedayeen (Self-Sacrificers), the sneaker-shod guerrillas are recruited from Palestinian Arab refu gees, and are thus adventurers without a country who know Israel's landscape because it was once...
...grace over their dinner table. Once he brought Manhattan Jazzman Lucky Thompson and his tenor sax to the camp for a concert. There are 200 tape-recorded hours of Lucky's music on hand at Kenwood. Progressive jazz floats incessantly through the pines and maples. "Lucky is my rhythm man," Archie explains. "He plays while I skip rope, and this makes a pulsation which keeps me in time. We're artists who appreciate each other's work...
Worn Velveteen. The Voice was worth all the buildup. It sang slowly, more slowly than most popular singers dared to sing, but it kept a heavy, heartbeat rhythm. Says one critic: "He never let go of that old Balaban & Katz beat.'' Other critics compared the sound of his voice to "worn velveteen," or said it was "like being stroked by a hand covered with cold cream." One listener wondered if Frank tucked his voice under his armpit between numbers, and another said he sounded as if he had musk glands where his tonsils ought...