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Real Ambassadors. The cool ones have spawned a whole school of sober-sided musicians who mistake the trancelike atmosphere of the nightclubs for concert-hall attentiveness. Their ambition is to brighten up jazz's image. Saxophonist Paul Winter, who came on the scene with a White House concert, is among the many who think that the presence of booze and dark lust in the nightclubs is harmful to their art. Winter, who figures that jazz musicians can be of greater help to the world's teetering countries than Peace Corpsmen or even helicopter pilots, wants them to clean...
Some of the new books are solid, sober summations of the latest thoughts and theories on everything from anal eroticism to zygotes; others are hardly more than collections of sleazy case histories. The writing ranges from racy colloquialism to surgical asepsis. But either way, sex is being written about more-and more specifically-in the U.S. today than in any other part of the world...
...Weill's music long before she became his widow. Her ravished soprano perfectly matched the temper of his Berlin theater songs-tough, bragging, wicked, hopeless-and no one could have done more with Bertolt Brecht's lyrics than a singer whose voice combines the chilling qualities of sober screams and drunken laughter. Even now-years past the peak of her career-Lenya's artistic claim frightens other singers off her turf...
...somber warnings that May Day 1920 would be marked by unprecedented violence and not a firecracker went off, Palmer was ridiculed in the press. Businessmen began to worry that immigrant labor might dry up, and the press, which only a few months before had been fanning the hysteria, ran sober stories about the importance of immigrants to the nation...
...directing himself to the Radcliffe class, Stendahl noted that 'you have achieved a lot, and there is room for the right kind of pride." St. Paul recommended a "sober judgment." Stendahl said, "which neither brags nor is falsely humble...