Word: sixteener
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...subject of jazz-but never cool. Insisting that jazz came up the river from Odessa long before it made its Mississippi passage, Soviet authorities three years ago began relaxing the ban against Dixieland and swing. As a result, such dated numbers as When the Saints Go Marchin In and Sixteen Tons are now popular in Russia. Yet the Soviet music masters could not bring themselves to permit Russian musicians to play kholodny or cool dzhaz-the progressive sound of Thelonious Monk and Stan Getz, much admired by many Russians who hear it on the Voice of America or on smuggled...
...Democrats. But Humphrey (who is indeed good but not indispensable) would gladly exchange his place in the Senate for the Vice-Presidential chair in the Cabinet room. And by almost any standard he deserves it. Either by dint of strong leadership in the Senate, or a distinguished record over sixteen years in Congress, or the strength he would add to the ticket. Humphrey should be the Democratic nominee for Vice President. It only remains for President Johnson to designate him so at Atlantic City in August...
Because of the structural and magical peculiarities, the audience is asked to use uncommon imagination in the final two acts. But if it must accept the passage of sixteen years in little more than sixteen lines and suppress disbelief at a statue become woman, in the three acts (until the first intermission), it needs only to be carried along by one of the best casts assembled at the Loeb this year...
...position, and the crowds gather early every night of the week but Sunday. By 11, they are a good thousand strong, amiable at first, ruly and obedient. Some nibble candy bars left over from the movies, others nip from flasks. Excitement mounts. So do six policemen, onto snorting steeds. Sixteen more police get the barriers set up along 46th Street and part way across the Broadway exit. The throng fidgets: gloves drop, eyeglasses break, drunks mutter, old men complain and ask to be taken home, sophisticates yawn but stay rooted, teen-agers warm up for the squeal. Someone starts...
...Sixteen national students organizations--including the National Student Association, Hillel, Young Democrats, and Campus Division of Americans for Democratic Action--will send representatives to the one-day conference...