Word: teamwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Makes David Run? Last year Brubeck won Down Beat's popularity and critics' poll, Metronome's "AllStar" Poll. "Man, they wail!" wrote Down Beat Jazz Editor Nat Hentoff of the quartet. "A kind of teamwork which is without parallel in the entire field of music," wrote Jazz Expert George Avakian, who brought the quartet to Columbia Records. "Complicated and extremely cerebral, [Brubeck's music] has tremendous drive and surprising warmth," wrote Critic John Hammond. This kind of music (for 45 minutes three to five times a night) earns the quartet...
...contrast to Knowland's troubles with senatorial prima donnas and his relative lack of experience (nine years in the Senate), Joe Martin has been a Congressman for 29 years and commands great respect from the House's feudal barons, the committee chairmen. By his gift for teamwork, his influence over chairmen, his control of the traffic-regulating Rules Committee, and by the tightness of the House's rules, Joe Martin has kept his House in order...
...limp wrist in international competition, climbed to prowess because the Sports Ministry in Budapest's postwar Communist regime has stuck sternly to the party line that a people's democracy ought to breed winners; the politicians ride herd on the sportsmen to whip them into smooth teamwork. State doctors from the Institute for Sport Hygiene check up on training, state coaches work overtime to turn out well-drilled scoring machines. The fine eleven beat Britain's best in Budapest last May, soon after breezed into Bern and swept easily into the quarter finals for the Rimet...
...case of public housing, said Slusser, the plateau of teamwork can be reached through a city's slum section, which produces an everlasting succession of headaches but little revenue for private real-estate men. "My guess is that nobody in this audience is handling slum homes. You want customers-not the nickels and dimes wrung out of human misery...
...discovery of the plants, mostly blue-green algae and simple forms of fungi, is the result of two years of teamwork in field excavations and laboratory research between Elso S. Barghoorn, associate professor of Botany, and Stanley A. Tyler, professor of Geology at the University of Wisconsin...