Word: washing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most people, music is a kind of bath to wash in," laments the 83-year-old patriarch of Hungarian music, Zoltan Kodály. "They react with their nerves, not their minds." With saintly dedication to the idea that good music is "the food of the soul," Kodály has labored most of his life to make it understandable as well as enjoyable. To souls nourished on dissonant modern music, Kodály's brand may seem like rather stale strudel. His themes remain resolutely melodic, and his rhythms never stray far from Slavic dances. Still, few 20th...
...dark hours of a May morning 21 years ago, the twelve fighters of Katsura Squadron roared off the Ozuki airstrip for assignment to a suicide mission. For the 16-year-old local Tabe High School girls, whose part in the war had been to wash down the planes, it was the end of an idyllic spring with the young second lieutenants. As one of the moonstruck maintenance girls remembered, when the squadron got its orders, "We felt like the wives of samurai sent off to battle in old Japan...
...membership: 1,184,000) and the Masons (U.S. membership: 4,500,000) jointly sponsor some local charity drive; almost every night, two groups get to gether for bowling matches or common meetings. In Madison, Wis., for example, the Knights and the Shriners co-sponsored a charity bazaar. In Tacoma, Wash., Columbians and Shriners gathered for what one ecumenical enthusiast called "a real bash." And in Hartford, Conn., the Knights have joined with the Masons and B'nai B'rith to form a brotherhood committee rep resenting a combined membership of 100,000. Says Supreme Knight John W. McDevitt...
...like the Supreme Deity and the Interpreter the principal minor god who carried prayers and sacrifices to Him." The pay and cringe benefits were enough to support Odili, 34 other children and five wives in high style, with a goat killed every week, and lashings of palm wine to wash down the yams. But times change. The white man has gone, and Odili must emerge with his emergent nation and attach himself to black power in the person of a cynical grafter named Chief Nanga. So begins a comedy of Freedom...
...Columbia, finds its anti-hero in black Brooklyn, but race is not his reason for being on the outside looking in. Mack Davis is a onetime All-America basketball star who got caught fixing games for the gamblers. Kicked off the court, Mack takes a job in a car wash ("I got the cleanest hands of any fixer around") and wears his cool like a man who couldn't care less. But he's crying on the inside, warming a cold old hope of playing with the pros. What happens to his hope is fast, funny, touching...