Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Balls, by Paul Foster, stars two spotlighted pingpong balls that throughout the play swing back and forth over the pitch-dark graves of two long-dead though volubly tape-recorded sailors. Dramatically grave-robbed from Beckett, this is a good isometric exercise for the neck, but lames the brain...
...Peking's friends provided plenty of lip service. From Djakarta to Caracas, mobs led by Chinese Communist and other "students" smashed U.S. embassy windows, burned cars, ripped American flags, winged inkpots, and howled for Lyndon Johnson's blood. Back in Moscow after his eleven-day swing through Asia, So viet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at least partly echoed the Peking line; he promised "appropriate" military aid to the North Vietnamese, and his propaganda machine threatened dire consequences unless "American imperialism" withdraws from Indo-China. On the surface at least, the divided Communist giants were closing ranks...
Meanwhile, Cole was also topping the jazz polls for his "floating swing" style of piano in the tradition of his idol, Earl ("Fatha") Hines. Cole became a strong force in jazz, influenced the styles of such greats as Bill Evans, Ray Charles, Oscar Peterson. The event that helped turn him permanently into a singer was the unlikely appearance in 1948 of a bearded, barefoot hermit-songwriter named Eden Ahbez, who smuggled one of his songs to Cole through his valet. It was called Nature Boy, and Cole's haunting version of it became a runaway bestseller. He soon broke...
...third round. The Chrysler people were offering a convertible to anybody who scored an ace, but it had to come on the 17th hole in the fifth round-in front of the TV cameras. At that point, poor Jerry wasn't even around to take a swing at it; he had missed the cut. Jerry Barber put one in for the cameras at the 1962 Buick Open, and won himself a new Buick, then cagily asked if he could please wait until the new models came out before picking up his prize...
BLACK PEARLS (Prestige). Tenor Saxophonist John Coltrane is the featured soloist, and he zooms boldly off to do some fine, abstract skywriting at Mach 1. Meanwhile, back at the piano, Red Garland waits to deliver earthbound but agreeable interludes of up-tempo swing...