Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guards? So, last week Albanian youths streamed into the 'mountains as "voluntary activists" to force collectivization on the 10% of the country that still can plant its own crops. Albania's Communist Party has begun burning books, slashing paintings, purging comrades as "decadent" and "soft " breaking down the old habits of the peasants." Albania's Ked Guards already number 10000 but that is just the beginning. Premier Mehmet Shehu says that by spring "all Albanian youth will be mobilized for great historic decisions...
...instrument, ricocheting be tween hoarse blats and urgent bleats, pouring out great churning whirlpools of sound. Dipping and bobbing as he played, he flew off on melodic tangents that were by turns coy and playful, ten der and savage. Then, taking up his flute, he turned philosopher, evoked the soft and misty moods of a man looking back on sunnier days. Love Vibrations. Lloyd is the newest prophet of New Wave jazz - the freeform explorations made familiar by such saxmen as John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. His rapport with his sidemen, especially inventive Pianist Keith Jarrett, verges on the extrasensory...
...Crown in a $130 million swap, run it under present management. In contrast to American's $1.2 billion sales, which have risen hardly at all in the past six years, Royal Crown's sales have tripled to an estimated $64 million since 1960. And the third-ranked soft-drink company (after Coca-Cola and Pepsi) promises to keep on outpacing its parent...
...pronounced dead by the critics. With such a declaration, many a collector decides that he had better unload, prices decline, and artists get despondent. More in anger than in jest, Painter Jimmy Ernst ticked off an "unhappy proliferation" of present and possibly future styles: "Op and pop, sop (soft-edge-optical), plop-plop (from catsup bottles), abrev (abstract revisionism), exab (express-abstraction), geopimp (geometric-post-impressionism), kipab (kinetic-pcst-abstraction), syncromesh (easy to shift), nero (new eroticism), and perhaps even esthex (esthetic experiments between consenting adults in the privacy of their home...
...basis by the Office of Education of the Federal Government). And approximately $2.5 million of the $5.5 million needed in added endowment has now also either been given or pledged. At the same time, happily, the effort being made for capital funds has brought sizeable helpful new increments in "soft money" for current expenses. But despite all that has been achieved, this important drive for new capital remains some $5 million short of its goal...