Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Desmond, Drummer Joe Dodge and Bass Player Bob Bates-go to work. Desmond's tones are plaintive and pure, the rhythm of drum and bass is as rich and firm as a deep-pile carpet. Like Bach starting off to improvise a passacaglia, they lay down the tune-say, Let's Fall in Love-as a kind of groundwork. Desmond's eyes close, his long fingers glide over his alto's mother-of-pearl keys, and he is off on a flight that may take him into Moorish arabesques or old English folk tunes...
Everyone, said Dr. Peale, can live a magnificent, effective life-if only "he is right with God . . . You have to get in tune with God and tell yourself at the start of each day, 'Another great day has begun'. . . You can be what you have pictured, and accomplish what you want your life to be . . . The formula for good days ahead is to pray hard, work hard, believe hard-and picture hard...
...this is trussed together by hundreds of yards of Composer Tiomkin's sound track-a sort of Faroukish turn ("Come to my tent, O my beloved") on the old snake-dance tune. It may not be much as music, but it's perfect as a truss...
Next night at Lincoln, he played the same tune again. But he charged that since "Attorney General Hyman Albert Yanowitz. alias H. Albert Young," had never changed his name legally, he should be forced to resign. Finally, Bowles declared that he would welcome the support of Negroes who "sincerely" believed in segregation. But Negroes would attend N.A.A.W.P. meetings only on a segregated basis: "The only thing we'll do together is to pledge allegiance to the flag...
Wide-Screen Mama Blues (Stan Freberg; Capitol). The top-tune business, particularly that muscular field called "rhythm and blues," gets a heartfelt razzing. "WideScreen Mama," bellows Funnyman Freberg (under the screaming riffs), "don't you Cinerama...