Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lehmann did not slip by the Coast Guard boat until the finish line was about 25 yards away, but by doing so he raised Harvard's point score enough to swing the cumulative total...
...story began to take form last April when Senior Editor Robert Christopher, before taking over as TIME'S new Business editor, made a swing about the country, meeting bankers, industrialists, economists, businessmen, and seeking out what was dynamic and changing in the American economy. In Southern California he became fascinated by the way the old airplane business was converting itself into the new arts of aerospace. Berges introduced Christopher to Tom Jones, and Christopher recalls how impressed he was by this "extremely articulate businessman: anyone who could talk like that could write a TIME cover himself...
...Study in Frustration: The Fletcher Henderson Story (Columbia. 4 LPs). The man who anticipated Goodman, Basie and Ellington by building the granddaddy of the great swing bands, in a sampling of the incendiary brews he poured from the bandstand for 15 wonderful years (1923-38). Composer Henderson (whose "frustration" was that his greatest success came as an arranger with Goodman rather than as a leader) collected the most extraordinarily gifted group of sidemen in jazz history, and most of them are on triumphant display-Trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge, Saxmen Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, Trombonists J. C. Higginbotham...
Rights of Swing (Candid). More fuel for a familiar argument: Is it possible to "compose" jazz and keep it fresh? The answer here is yes. Composer-Saxophonist Phil Woods, building in lines both propulsive and direct, has fashioned a five-part work that is always coherent and brimful of relaxed charm. High points are Woods's own sax solos-lean and subtly responsive to the humors of music and musician...
Boroff blames matters like this on general prejudice, and predicts, "As more women join the ranks of graduate students, it will no longer seen a heresy when they devote themselves to the intellectual life. The gates of the ghetto will swing open." But nothing, not even the great enlightenment Boroff hopes for, is going to keep an unmarried, 30-year-old female Ph.D. candidate from feeling that she is missing something...