Word: shake
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free-market auction," as Innovator Lapin calls it, will begin May 6 as only the first phase of the shake-up he has devised for Fannie Mae. Last week the Senate Banking Committee gave tentative approval to an Administration-backed bill that would convert the agency's main operation into a completely private company. If the bill passes, Fannie Mae will buy back the $142 million of its preferred stock now held by the U.S. Treasury. "We don't need the Treasury's money," says Lapin. Ultimately the corporation would be controlled by its 9,598 private...
...often treacherous Merchant of Venice requires valor well beyond the ordinary. The astonishing thing is that those Dudley people just don't give a damn. They go right out onto that tiny Lehman Hall stage and play The Merchant of Venice. They seize the work by the lapels, shake it for nearly all they can hope to get out of it and throw what they find at the audience. If you are there to catch what they have, you'll be a pretty happy person...
Brooks's competition for the three seat came from Mike Livingston. If Harvard suffers another near-disaster against Northeastern today, Parker could well decide to shake up the roster, but this is considered unlikely...
BILL HALEY is the earliest rock auteur (which chronologically places him somewhere between Johnny Ray and Elvis Presley). Not only did Haley accomplish rock's conquest of the pop charts with Rock Around the Clock, he molded a cheerful, sincerely synthetic style that brought him hits like Shake, Rattle, and Roll and See Ya Later, Allgiator, and enabled him and his Comets to appropriate any old song for rock's use--remember, for instance, Rockin' Through the Rye. (While speaking of Haley, we might note the best successor to his practices, Johnny and the Hurricanes. Though not properly belonging...
...burst of discovery, the U.S. record-buying public is making it up to Redding for a side he made only 21 weeks before his death, Dock of the Bay. Surprisingly, Dock of the Bay is restful and reflective, whereas previous songs, like Shake and Try a Little Tenderness, were exuberant, even ecstatic. But it is no less authentically soulful, and its ironic air of premonition is not lost on the kids, either...