Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pepper had come back, as he had had to many times before. Last week, following his engagement at Fat Tuesday's and at clubs in such other cities as Philadelphia and Washington, he wound up a rare swing through the East with a performance for the Atlanta Jazz Alliance. He had a first-rate trio in tow: Pianist Milcho Leviev, Bassist Bob Magnusson and Drummer Carl Burnett. His repertory ranged brilliantly over a variety of moods and rhythms, from standards (What Is This Thing Called Love?) to appealing originals (Ophelia, Blues for Blanche), and from wistful ballads (Over...
...faster yet in 1970 when the pastor began his nationwide Hour of Power on TV. "We were turning people away," he cried. So Architect Philip Johnson has built him a Crystal Cathedral of gleaming glass for $16 million, with seats for 3,000 and 90-ft.-high doors that swing open to reveal the preacher to pilgrims in autos. Says Schuller of his edifice: "Finally we have a church where the heavens can do their thing...
EVENTUALLY, Sharp says, passive resistance to violence will produce a "political jiu--jitsu effect." The force of the oppressor, turned back upon him, will prove his undoing, as third parties, revolted initially by the physical brutality of his campaign, gradually swing their support behind the oppressed: David Carradine meets the corporate state. The most mercenary aims may inspire a campaign of nonviolence. Invariably, however, others will respond from the heart and not the mind, just as many did after Kent State or Selma. In the end, the opponent may be converted to your point of view, decide that...
Topical time haunts the novel; it is the center of these impersonal forces, their measure. Characters swing with "the pendulum of an era," obeying some physics of oscillatory motion. But below the philosophic dimension we recognize a close attention to contemporary detail of world and cultural history. We see "brutish, bottomless" Australia during the war and after, when Caro and Grace Bell are there, existing in the unimpassioned hopelessness and nowhereness of a place where "history's shrivelled chronicle" has already "terminated in unsuccess." When their mother drowns in a bizarre boating accident, we read, "Greece fell, Crete fell, there...
...Cambridge, footsteps echoing. Perini's boys were digging up the Square, rat tat tat. He heard the brutality inflicted on the helpless pavement, and yelled for them to stop. They wouldn't, so he shivered and screamed at the cranes, "Louder, louder!" The noise persisted. He rolled over to swing apple juice...