Word: schmalz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sounded-well, like a giant radio with its dials spinning crazily. Dissonant 12-tone textures melted into a gypsy air. A rock beat crashed into Renaissance madrigals. Ragtime, ragas, taped noises and electronic bleeps tumbled together in a swirl of sound that satirized serious music as much as schmalz. Silverman says it was all meant to be "fun, like raping the styles...
...croissant, the sophistication of the English muffin, the intrigue of the bagel. But for millions of West Germans, the day begins with Brötchen, the hand-grenade-shaped breakfast roll with a shell so tough that it travels well in trouser pockets and can bear giant charges of Schmalz or butter and jam without buckling. Trouble is, the best Brötchen is freshly baked Brötchen, and that is denied West Germans through a quirk of law dating back to Hitler. To end night shifts for bakers, the Nazis in 1936 forbade any commercial baking from...
BILL EVANS, who usually stresses simplicity, has surrounded himself with strings for some improvisations on Bach, Chopin, Scriabin and Granados (Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra; Verve). It is best, and easy, to forget that Bach had anything to do with the gentle, romantic schmalz called Valse, but this and the other adaptations are pleasant displays of Evans' skilled, introspective and sometimes sentimental piano playing...
...produce eleven Broadway shows (including Jumbo, Carmen Jones'). He opened a restaurant and a nightclub (Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe). He ran the Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair. He became a syndicated columnist, peddling a unique amalgam of show-biz snappy sayings and schmalz. He collected art the way other people collect neckties-he once tried to buy the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Rodin collection-and he gorged on the stock market as if it were so much bagels...
...book dealers and door-to-door book salesmen to solicit memberships by offering the solicitors plump 41½% commissions on each volume sold to any member they signed up. While his competitors concentrated on small editions of intellectual literature, Mohn brought out volumes with mass appeal from encyclopedias to schmalz. Applications rolled in-80% of them from young people who had never before read books outside of school. Mohn now has four clubs for books and records, and a membership of 3,200,000, including Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. This year he will put out 22 million books and write...