Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost a decade has passed since Sidney Bechet replaced Louis Armstrong as the unquestioned King of Jazz. Bechet is a complete original. He invented his own instrument, the soprano saxophone, a metal clarinet which is both reedier and brassier than the wooden version. With it he produces soaring, melodious, and fanciful clarinet passeges; deep, throaty, and emotional "trombone" interjections; and the clear, fiercely driving attack associated with the trumpet. Usually he does all at once, with a tone so magnificent one feels he could drive a truck down it and with such imagination and variety that one actually...
Trnka, an artist and sculptor in his own right, has used but two live actors. All the other parts are played by cleverly carved wooden figurines. Using animated cartoon technique, Trnka filmed each frame of the movie separately-taking as many as twenty shots for a simple movement of an arm. The production is in Nu-Agfa color, which lends a soft, warm tone to the action...
...which is definitely American." The two pictures on the opposite page are clearly in that idiom. William Sharp's Railroad Jubilee on Boston Common, painted an even century ago, celebrates with Fourth of July fervor the westward march of the railroad empire builders. James Goodwyn Clonney's wooden Sleigh Ride has New England winter clarity and fireside warmth...
Since that day, Oilman Cullen has never stopped helping the University of Houston. When he began, the university was only three years old-a former junior college that had 1,300 students, 55 teachers and a single wooden shack on the San Jacinto high-school campus. By last week, when the university totted up its 1951 enrollment, even the eyes of Texas were wide with wonder. Houston announced that it had 13,541 students (second only to the University of Texas), a faculty of 513, a 260-acre campus. Thanks largely to the Cullen bounty, it was the fastest-growing...
...girls, Froma Inselbuch and Georgia Stonehill, were awakened at 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning by two men who had gained entrance to the three-story wooden structure. According to statements by the girls, the description of one of the men fits that of a prowler who terrorized residents of 20 Walker last year and in 1949. Police concurred with this report...