Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parliament began in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, last week, the pattern of noble withdrawal was broken by Lord Dalhousie, Governor-General of the nearly extinct Central African Federation. Required by tradition to read the speech drafted by the local white government, Lord Dalhousie, resplendent in a plumed cocked hat and silver epaulets, delivered a sharp rebuke to Britain because it "has betrayed the people of the federation and has done them irreparable harm...
...retainer, and though he was an indifferent student, his royal birth won him a scholarship to Cambridge, where he began to read law. But the Tunku skipped most of his lectures, seldom missed a tea or dinner-dance, distinguished himself mainly by picking up 28 traffic violations in his silver Riley with red fenders...
Divorce, she insisted, has not been discussed or even considered. But up until three months ago, she had insisted that separation was also out of the question. Sybil Burton, silver-haired at 33, was clearly giving up on her 14-year marriage. Though Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher might find it premature to start the ritual of divorce or send out her towels for a new monogram, since Burton, however separate, is still a married man, things were definitely looking up. From Eddie Fisher, still Liz's husband of record, there were only yawns. His comment, as issued...
...latest release by the Horace Silver Quintet, The Tokyo Blues (Blue Note (4110), consists, like most of their other albums, of tunes which Silver wrote especially for the group. He is one of the leading jazz composers; some of his compositions (Moanin', Doodlin', and The Preacher, to name three) have become jazz standards...
...inspiration for The Tokyo Blues was the quintet's recent tour of Japan. All the number have a vaguely Japanese air about them, but essentially they are down-to-earth American. Silver's percussive, exciting piano is accented by the tight playing of the group and written bridges between solos, a favorite Silver device, give the music unity and discipline. The title tune and the rhythmic Too Much Sake are the best numbers on the record, but all of them are good...