Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GOODMAN QUARTET: TOGETHER AGAIN (RCA Victor). A lot has happened both in and out of jazz since the salad days of Goodman, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton and Teddy Wilson. But here they are, sounding much the same 25 years later. Goodman fans will treasure new versions of Runnin' Wild, Somebody Loves Me, I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good. But something is missing-a sense of discovery. Perhaps the trouble is that the pieces sound light and facile, like the right thing said once too often...
There seems to be something both pleasing and prestigious in having wild animals where you want them. The bachelor Prince Rainier of Monaco made a lasting impression on Movie Actress Grace Kelly by showing her around his private zoo, and he had plenty of royal precedent. Some 3,000 years ago, Egypt's Empress Hatasu sent out a whole fleet in search of new animals to stock her private menagerie; Emperor Wen, the first of China's Chou dynasty (12th century B.C.), had a collection of animals he called "the Garden of Intelligence"; Roman Emperor Octavius Augustus...
...Wild animals are mostly a municipal matter today, but they are more popular than ever. Of the 30 largest cities in the U.S. only two do not have at least one zoo (Minneapolis and Newark). Recently Los Angeles announced plans for a new $6,600,000 zoo designed by Architect Charles Luckman. Indianapolis has just opened a twelve-acre, $800,000 children's zoo as a mere preliminary to a 38-acre main zoo to be added within the next four years...
Shuddering Nature. It's not all this kind of call of the wild, though. Many middle-aged couples sign on for the informality and the chance to play the role of old sea dogs, and Burke's crews give them all the work they want-polishing brass, taking the wheel, standing watch. "They love watches," says Burke. "It's so shippy when they're awakened by a crewman at 2 a.m. saying 'It's your watch...
...Stirling, "he is no longer in the silly stage looking only for new issues." One of the signs of the instability of 1961's runaway bull market was the ridiculous kiting that amateurs gave any new stock that came out. Today each one gets a cold eye, and wild successes are few. One pending exception: Communications Satellite Corp., the first blue chip of space, which last week set the price of its stock (expected to be issued in June) at $20 per share. Brokers were immediately swamped with orders, and many turned down all but their own customers...