Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stuttgart Salesman Wilhelm Boger, 57, onetime chief of the Auschwitz intelligence system, boasted that the place had the lowest escape rate of any Nazi concentration camp. Boger was the inventor of a torture rack known as the "Boger swing," in which the victim-bound hand and foot and swinging from a beam-was whipped, often until he died. "We helped those too tired to go on," Boger blandly explained. The most defiant defendant was a burly ex-butcher and male nurse, Oswald Kaduk, 57, who was charged with breaking the necks of elderly prisoners by standing on a walking stick...
Basie, 59, has been a big-band maestro for 28 years. Except for the brazenly modern harmonies and voicings of his new arrangements, the "Basie sound" has remained steadfastly the same all along. With Benny Goodman his main competition, Basie was a swing king in the '30s, and his style is still defiantly prewar. In the first years of bop, Basie was considered so sadly reactionary that his band endured a long eclipse. Then, after four years' touring with a small combo, Basie collected a new 16-piece ensemble in 1952, and within a year it was fully...
...Tones. Basie's piano playing is a long way back from the front, but he plays the blues with great authority, nimbly riding the beat with quietly assertive chords and 30-year-old blues riffs. His band is the best-drilled orchestra in jazz-which is why it swings like no other. The rhythmic nuances jazz needs to swing are blurred by the slightest imprecision in ensemble playing, but in Basie's band, the timing is flawless, and the result is a driving pulse that never for an instant falters...
...territory, Peking has angered neighboring Kenya, where it has also spent heavily to woo the new nation. It may succeed at least in raising Russia's ante in Africa and Asia. At week's end, as Chou left for Algeria, Nikita Khrushchev was reportedly planning his own swing through Africa. Before visiting Cairo next spring, he may also junket to India and Nepal on Chou's back doorstep. Then it will be Nikita's turn to tell who will bury whom...
...this friendliness could change sharply when Johnson begins making decisions closely affecting business. In the next month, he must make appointments to federal agencies that will decide whether the ICC takes a hard or soft line toward rail mergers and whether the Federal Reserve Board might swing toward a monetary policy of easier credit. He is expected to offer a bill soon that will return high price supports to wheat farmers, and as the touchy railroad labor negotiations begin in February, he will have to indicate whether in an election year he will continue the Kennedy Administration's attempt...