Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upper gold tooth shines like a phosphorous eye when she opens her mouth to sing. The scimitar eyes may close, the slender hands seem to carve the phrases out of the choky nightclub air. And the voice, sweet and strong above the rhythm section, curls around the lyrics like a husky caress. The voice belongs to Negro Singer Ernestine Anderson, at 29 perhaps the best-kept jazz secret in the land...
...first horn player of the Metropolitan Opera and a sometime player in jazz combos. His tautly constructed piece opens with a wistful theme, gradually begins to swing, gives way to free improvisation and a swelling riff in the wind instruments. All the pieces have their fascinating moments, but they seem less intent on saying anything than on pacing the distance between Birdland and Carnegie Hall...
...brave, new, unfettered world of art. Worcester Museum Director Daniel Catton Rich finds the movement producing "the most fruitful work being done in this decade ... a new, vital kind of American abstraction, pictures which in sweep, size and dynamics display typically American qualities. Beside them many European contemporaries seem weak and uninventive...
...C.E.D. charts seem to be more proof of the correctness of the Administration's course in opposing loud congressional demands, and some by businessmen, for heavy tax cuts and a vast program of Government spending. According to C.E.D.'s graphs, neither course would necessarily have accelerated the recovery. Despite 1954's tax cut, personal income took 14 months to regain and hold lost ground. This time personal income is almost back to pre-recession levels in ten months, without any reduction in taxes. At the start of the 1949 recession, Government spending was sharply increased, yet employment...
Despite some low-flying airplanes, the performers on the whole come through clearly; though one is frequently aware of their striving for clarity, which they must eventually overcome. Clarity should seem effortless...