Word: sax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Bernice Brown Cronkhite of the Radcliffe graduate school is chairman of the committee on awards. Committee members include President Jordan and Professors Gordon W. Allport, Arlie V. Bock, Stanley Cobb, '10, Alden B. Dawson, Leigh Hoadley, Karl Sax, and Edwin B. Wilson...
Twilight contains just about everything that an adolescent mind could want, in cluding characters such as Lady Orabella Sax, Arethusa Lever, Captain Elias Wild-blood and Alden Galahad Paget. What's more, Author Steen lays bare the very sur face of their natures: "Superbly nude, [Dorset Flood] lounged elegantly on the window sill"; "Plump and glossy as a young calf, there was something in [Polly Bowling] that vibrated...
...under the impression that the "Bird" plays alto sax 99&44/100ths of the the time. Could TIME have beeped when it should have bopped...
...simile, first of all, is unworthy of TIME'S vivid standards: "...Charlie ('Yard-bird') Parker cut loose, puffing his tenor sax like a big cigar..." [TIME...
Avant garde bopper Parker, as any but the moldiest fig knows, earned his frenetic niche in bopdom by his puffing on the alto sax...