Word: satin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audience, in turn, is almost literally grabbed by the ears and dragged from the frantic heights of Dizzy Gillespie's jazz to the satin tones of Sarah Vaughan, and then blasted back to reality (of sorts) by the big noise of Count Basie and his band. The Festival is a real tour de force of the jazz world, and while it can never achieve the warm, intimate atmosphere of a small night club, it presents a survey of jazzmen and their styles unmatched anywhere...
...Mary Parkman Peabody had left her retired Episcopal bishop husband at home in Cambridge, donned sensible shoes, and gone south with three friends because, she said, "we decided that the Negroes needed help." On her first full day in town, Mrs. Peabody satin with Negroes at three segregated restaurants, a movie house and two motels. Next day, while sitting in at a segregated motel dining room with five Negroes, she was arrested for trespassing, being an undesirable guest, and conspiracy. Rather than post a $450 cash bond, Mrs. Peabody chose to spend two nights and two days...
...castaway clothes, particularly if the other people had cast them away at least 30 years before. These come cheap in Manhattan's thrift shops. When she first walked into the Bon Soir, she was wearing a $4 black dress, a $2 Persian vest, and old white satin 500 shoes with large silver buckles...
...through something like 75 college offers, at one point had almost decided on Duke; he even signed a "letter of intent" to accept a scholarship. But then he started rereading college catalogues-and decided that Princeton was brainier. "I don't want to end up as just Old Satin Shorts Bradley," he explained at the time. Duke Coach Vic Bubas only sighs and clutches his chest. "Every time I hear his name, I get a sharp pain right here...
...summer, of course, the coat of the tuxedo is white allowing for colored ties and cumberbunds. On formal occasions there is a satin stripe on the trousers which the cummberbund must match...