Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coordinating Committee, at once the youngest and most belligerent organization in the civil rights movement. For weeks S.N.C.C. sound trucks had rolled through the Georgia city's black ghettos, blasting out Carmichael's battle cry, "Black Power!" About all that was needed for an explosion was a spark-and in the end it was Carmichael who found one and fanned it into flame...
Some of the alarmists who see every act of dishonesty as a symptom of general corruption make the mistake of judging people by Utopian rather than human standards. A spark of larceny leaps in everyone, and the scene would be dull without it. Nor is the evidence about dishonesty clear...
Style Without Spark. The Reids could not bankroll the losses indefinite ly, and in 1957 they asked Millionaire Diplomat-Sportsman John Hay Whitney for a loan. Anxious to support Republicanism's leading moderate voice, Whitney chipped in $1,200,000, took a stock option, finally decided to convert the loan to a controlling interest and see what he and his Wall Street troops could do. Naturally, they began with an economy drive; another layer of the Trib's staff was peeled off. Whitney did bring back Coach Woodward, but for editor he chose a small-town boy from...
...doesn't have to be dull." And circulation rose a bit. Then the 1962-63 printers' strike smashed the effort. Another economy drive had already got Denson (he missed too many deadlines), and after the strike, the Trib began vainly trying to imitate his style without his spark. When the 1964 Harlem riots broke on a Saturday night, the Trib refused to break its solidly locked Sunday front page, covered the story inside. And all along the paper kept losing money...
Reviving the Spark. "I am not interested in theory or history in collecting, but only in how the item can help me in my performance," Lateiner explains. No pedant, he uses research to "get under the composer's skin" and revive the spark and freshness of the creative impulse behind the music, "to re-create a piece at each time, on each plane, as if it had never been played before...