Word: timidation
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Last week at Manhattan's Blue Angel, she cast timid eyes at the ceiling as if Major Bowes's cane were about to rip down from the attic. She squirmed onto a stool and let her coltish legs dangle, ankles napping. She twisted bony fingers through her hair and blessed her audience with a tired smile. Then she sang-and at the first note, her voice erased all the gawkiness of her presence onstage...
...matter what kind of teeth imperialism may have-whether guns, tanks, rocket or nuclear teeth-its paper-tiger nature cannot change. Those who attack this proposition have obviously lost every quality a revolutionary ought to have and have instead become shortsighted and timid as mice...
...Milky & Timid. They were there in force when Lewis turned up in white tie and tails at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall to introduce his "Orchestra U.S.A.," a 28-man ensemble complete with strings and reeds. In a foggy program note, Lewis announced he was there to "develop most of the potentials'' of jazz, using "an instrumentation which is totally representative of the masterpieces of the instrumental families given to us from past times." As things worked out, this simply meant, "Add violins...
...orchestra sawed through three Lewis compositions and one by J. J. Johnson, producing milky overstatements of nice little ideas. Solos by Saxophonist Phil Woods and Vibraharpist Milt Jackson nimbly demonstrated that what would have been fragile, intricate music for a quartet had been made fragmentary, timid music for an orchestra. In his scoring, Lewis seemed barely able to tell his strings from his brass: the violins and cellos were misused in pursuit of inconsequential filigree, while the basses took long and vapid solo runs. Lewis had gone perilously far in the quest to make jazz more respectable without making...
...days a year, Pasadena. Calif., is a gentle, cultivated city populated by little old ladies who sit behind lace curtains and, according to legend, knit Volkswagens. But on New Year's Day. Pasadena is no place for the timid. Bass drums defile the dawn, and the aroma of American Beauty mingles with the perfume of nervous palomino. The Tournament of Roses parade is all about girls and beauty; the afternoon's football game is supposed to separate the men from the boys...