Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roger W. Brown, Senior Tutor of the Social Relations Department, explains this decline, the sharpest in recent College history, as part of a national trend. "Immediately following the war," Brown said, "social sciences and especially psychology were on the up-swing. Here at Harvard there was a pioneering spirit in Social Relations, as it was a new field...
...clatter continued, but Shaw turned to the group he calls the Gramercy Five (nostalgically named after his 1940 recording combo), stomped out a beat and began to play. For a while he sounded like a musical D.P., playing as if he could not decide between his old swing style and something considerably more jittery and "progressive." He mixed old Shaw favorites (Begin the Beguine, Frenesi) with such new Shaw originals as Overdrive and Lugubrious...
Conant's regime saw the educational pendulum swing all the way back to a curriculum more fixed than any since the middle of Eliot's administration. The restricting factor was General Education, Conant's greatest experiment and probably his greatest single success...
...Have to Swing It (Ella Fitzgerald; Decca). The versatile Ella remakes one of Martha Raye's oldies ("Mr. Paganini, please play my rhapsody"), slips from sweet to husky to artless scat-singing without losing her solid beat...
...after long illness; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Grandest of Spain's grandees, he owned castles in almost every major city, had some 65 titles, including that of Duke of Berwick (a Stuart title not recognized by Britain). When civil war broke out in 1936, the Anglophile Duke sought to swing Britain to Franco's cause. After World War II, he disputed Franco's right to rule, favoring a return to monarchy, but, too powerful to be exiled, returned to Spain to live...