Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miles Davis, tempered by Sly and Hendrix, is constantly exploring new dimensions of jazz. Though characterized by a new style, he has yet to alienate jazz purists while at the same time he incorporates those on the rock-jazz border into his wide scope of admirers. Miles puts on a great show and the intimate atmosphere of Pall's Mall should provide a perfect setting for his inspiring instrumentation. Miles Davis. October 1-6. Pall's Mall. For ticket information call...
...private life-style matches his professional modesty. Father of four (a fifth child died last year), he lives inconspicuously in an unpretentious house in suburban Maryland. He does not smoke, drinks only an occasional gin-and-tonic or glass of wine, and is a devout Catholic. His favorite recreations are sailing and bicycling...
...passengers to crew was less than 2 to 1) and so was the food. The France's gourmet dining rooms, particularly the gold-walled Chambord, ranked among the best restaurants on land or sea, dispensing caviar, foie gras and champagne as if they were going out of style...
...Corot and Courbet, the young aristocrat shunned the early 1900s revolutionary experiments of his Fauvist and Cubist Parisian friends and bought a house in the south of France, where he painted gentle, Cézannesque still lifes and landscapes glimmering with the unique southern light. Retaining and refining his style throughout his lifetime, Segonzac won and kept the respect of artists, critics and collectors...
...with a stunningly impressive analysis, written in 1946, on the prospects for democracy in China at that time. They were nil, he concluded, not only because the Communists were more vigorous and popular than the American-backed Kuomintang, but also because "the inertia of tradition" did not permit Western-style solutions in China. Fairbank was of course right, and since that essay-as textbook writer, as target of the McCarthy campaign, as a mover and shaker in the field of Asian studies in the U.S.-he has stuck to his main theme. The great Confucian system of government that evolved...