Word: tenoritis
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...tenor of Mr. Palmer's remarks suggests that Widener is not going to try something that it "fears would be extremely difficult" until a louder clamor is raised. I hope the HCUA will not relent in its efforts. Margaret Wilson...
...private discussions during the conference Boone elaborated on his group's current thinking. He said that each project's merits will be weighed against the tenor of local opposition, and then either instituted or rejected. This would mean, in fact, that Congressmen, city councils, or state officials would probably be able to keep out the service corps if they felt strongly enough. And there is little doubt among observers here that projects aimed at changing the social character of their region would meet with insurmountable resistance from the entrenched Southern delegation in Congress...
...Their music is definitely in the bluesy, "funky" tradition which dominates jazz today, but unlike others, they are not content simply to imitate Horace Silver and Cannonball Adderley. The most gifted member of the group is Wilton Felder, who is the first really exciting thing to happen to the tenor saxophone since Sonny Rollins came out of retirement a couple of years ago. Felder, at the age of 21, has already developed a unique style, as tough as David Newman's but in a different way. Felder's horn has an extremely clean, virile, somewhat angry sound; its emotional quality...
...list of conferees was impressive: U.S. Ambassadors David Bruce (to Britain), Walter Dowling (West Germany), Foy Kohler (U.S.S.R.). Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Special Trade Envoy Christian Herter. Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Whatever the tenor of their conversations. Kennedy indicated at a press conference that he was not planning any drastic new U.S. action to patch up the alliance...
...American conductor - a temperamental twin to the operatic tenor - has shared the orchestra's celebrated status; some, indeed, have defined it. In Europe, many a conductor has become a stoop-shouldered civil servant or a traveling virtuosity show. But in the U.S., a first-rank conductor can settle down comfortably, find a sympathetic barber to whom it seems reasonable that he must look even better from the back than he does from the front, and seize the authority to make music in his own style...