Word: solos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rule of thumb that cricket fanciers are Tories, while soccer fans are Labor; in the field of music the distinctions are not as clear-cut. Opera fans are probably traditionalists, secretly perhaps even monarchists. They are probably less concerned with facts and figures than devotees of the symphony or solo instruments, who often glory in the mathematical aspects of music. Opera lovers are also apt to be more intellectual and less sentimental than ballet fans, who are satisfied with generally second-rate musical scores and graceful or athletic bodily gyrations...
...SOLO MONK (Columbia). Pianist Thelonious Monk offers greater range and variety-from the simple lyric line to complex, sophisticated jazz-than any other musician playing today. I Should Care is dismembered and recomposed almost chillingly; North of Sunset comes out as old-fashioned blues. He even makes Ruby, My Dear, a song he has played for more than 30 years, sound fresh...
FRIEDRICH GULDA: INEFFABLE (Columbia). One of the few artists with a solid reputation in both classical and jazz piano, Gulda's second solo jazz record is freer and subtler than his first, but his strength is still dazzling technique. Although Gulda plays as though solving a network of complementary equations, cerebral jazz buffs will find this a rare, stimulating exercise...
Senate pages rubbed ,their eyes in disbelief. In the galleries, tourists gaped. There on the floor of the U.S. Senate was Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, twirling around on tiptoe in an impromptu ballet solo. "Boys and girls, sit down," Dirksen ordered in mid-sashay. "We are going to show you how to operate a trucking enterprise. Get yourself a good look. We will show you choreography. Get yourself a good look...
Pungent Prose. Almost as startling as Dirksen's solo was a speech by Majority Whip Russell Long, who rose to attack another amendment that would have granted Governors the right to veto community-action programs only. Giving the South's segregationist Governors such lopsided veto power over anti-poverty programs, said Louisiana's Long, would expose them to unbearable pressures from "the Ku Klux Klan on one side" and "the Negro crowd" on the other. Long also charged that Northern Republican Governors such as Michigan's George Romney, New York...