Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles Lawyer Alphonse Matthews, a self-styled beatnik named Eric ("Big Daddy") Nord turned the joint into a coffeehouse. By midsummer, "the Gas House" was in full swing, and the beats pushed in to make the scene, as they say. A jukebox blared the beatniks' Three Bs: Bach, Bartok and "Bird" (Cool Saxophonist Charlie Parker). Bongo drums pounded out broken rhythms from early afternoon to early morning. Folk singers plunked guitars. Far-out paintings dripped from the walls. Ancient, rump-ruptured couches, rescued from the city dump, decorated the floor, and in the center of the room stood...
Like a professor on a field trip, Gypsy Rose Lee completed a swing through Europe, exposing herself to new trends in the arts. "In London," said Gypsy, "it is called the Paris striptease. In Paris, it is the American striptease. And in Vienna, it is the London striptease. I guess they're all trying to pass the blame...
...refuses to follow the trend that is breaking down the barrier between classics and jazz, will not hop up a piece of serious music. "It's a wedding that loses the best of both," he says. "It destroys the fire of jazz-which should be hot-blooded and swing hard-and it makes inferior classical music." Byrd keeps the forms divorced, plays one, then the other. "The arrangement," says Showboat Manager Peter Lambros, "has been extremely profitable for both of us." With room for only 80 customers, the small cellar club grosses $3.500 a week, and Byrd...
...tried to animate the President's Vermont-granite features by inquiring into one of the great crises in Coolidge's life: "What was your first thought, Mr. President, when you heard that Harding had died?" Without any change of expression Coolidge twanged: "I thought I could swing...
...past two years, the U.S. attitude shifted. By the time Vice President Nixon flew back from last year's Caracas stoning, he openly advocated nothing more than a cool, correct handshake for dictators. Milton Eisenhower made the recommendation even stronger in his report to his brother after a swing through Central America in mid-1958. "We have made some honest mistakes with dictators," said Milton. "For example, we decorated several of them. Whatever reason impelled us to take those actions, I think, in retrospect, we were wrong...