Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orange Blobs. Although Treiman's work returns to the figure, she vehemently shuns the dehumanized faces that spare many fashionable artists any need to confront the individual. "No orange blobs," says she. "I'll paint a face where there is one." On a recent swing around the Mediterranean, she discovered at first hand the proto-baroque painters, Ribera and Caravaggio, and has borrowed their theatrical use of localized light to heighten her figures' impression of stirring the air around them...
...street was jumping in those days, and in advance of the vogue, Monk bought a zoot suit and grew a beard; his mood, for a change, was just right for the time. The jazz world was astir under the crushing weight of swing; the big dance bands had carried off the healthiest child of Negro music and starved it of its spirit until its parents no longer recognized it. In defiant self-defense, Negro players were developing something new?"something they can't play," Monk once called it?and at 19, Monk got to the heart of things by joining...
...onus will be on the Communists; 2) if Peking accepts a "two-China" policy, it would be a major Red switch that weakens phony Red claims to Formosa; 3) a two-China policy would also ease U.S. diplomatic problems in the United Nations, where French recognition could swing a majority vote to seat Communist China...
Died. Jack ("Big Gate") Teagarden, 58, jazzman somewhere close to "Chicago," between Dixieland and swing, one of the great trombonists of all time, a lumbering Texan famed since the late 1920s for his staccato, yet melodic instrumental style and a sad, reedy singing voice that made classics of songs of the period (Basin Street Blues), new favorites of old standbys (The St. James Infirmary); of pneumonia and cirrhosis of the liver; in New Orleans...
...ineffectually, "or am I not?"). In the middle rounds the opponents get down to serious slugging, and both take damaging blows-the evidence demonstrates that McCarthy attempted to blackmail the Army and that the Army then attempted to buy McCarthy off. But in the later rounds, McCarthy begins to swing wildly, and Joseph N. Welch, the Army's counsel, delicately cuts him into paper dolls. His methods are exposed as stupid, his morals as prehistoric. "At long last," Welch cries in revulsion, "at long last, sir, have you no decency left at all?"-and the spectators burst into sustained...