Word: ward
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Microsoft warning, for the first time in more than a decade, that quarterly earnings will lag behind estimates. It's Union Pacific railroad announcing that 2,000 employees will be involuntarily disembarking. It's steelmaker LTV filing for bankruptcy for the second time in 14 years. It's Montgomery Ward announcing that it is ending 128 years of American retailing history by closing its 250 stores and pink-slipping its 37,000 employees...
...first segment will air, to the last day of the month, when the final chapter, an accounting of the music's past quarter-century, a hopeful peek into the future and a fond envoi, will close everything out in fine style. The mighty history Burns and writer Geoffrey C. Ward have wrested from all this material is many things, including imperfect. But on balance and at bottom, the series not only does jazz proud, it also rises to meet it. Jazz is great television about great music...
...same time, to remind and warn viewers that jazz was born out of a fierce challenge to the abiding shame of American racism. If that means looking back longer than looking forward, then that's the way it should be, and that's the way Burns and Ward let it play out. Besides, with Armstrong playing Star Dust, or Young taking a solo, or Holiday singing Strange Fruit, the weight of history goes airborne. Jazz becomes, like the title of that Holiday classic, fine and mellow...
...Louis and Lady Day and Count Basie and Bird and Prez, and Benny Goodman too: it's folly to rank on Burns for spending so much time on these looming figures because, at the last, they are the ones who made the history he is setting down here. Writer Ward has compared the various warring partisans of jazz to a dysfunctional family, and all the sniping and complaining about short shrift for today's talent miss the mark that he and Burns aimed for. They are laying a foundation, making this music, whether it's as old as Armstrong...
...Editorial Notebook" piece ("How Napster Opened My Eyes," Dec. 4), Lorrayne S. Ward praises Harvard for its refusal to ban Napster from the Harvard network, thus enabling her to expand her appreciation for diversity in music...