Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pianist Allen got the idea for the album when he heard Alto Saxophonist Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley insist on TV one evening that jazz criticism is "a joke." Allen scribbled several funky tunes (Hackensack Train, Fink's Mules, Too Fat Boogie) and recorded them as the work of Pianist-Composer Hammer. He tricked up some of the tracks by recording first the bass, then the upper register and gluing them together. Under a second assumed name - Ralph Goldman - he wrote some typically pretentious liner notes: "Like Peck Kelly of Texas and Joe Abernathy of New York, Hammer has become...
Does the hoax prove that Cannonball was right about criticism? Says Gagster Allen with magnificent restraint: "It's a rather difficult form of expression...
...dark screen the words appear: "A G-String Enterprise." Called Pull My Daisy, the film is written and narrated by Jack Kerouac, the least dreary of the Beat writers. The cast is drawn from the highest level of Beat society; Poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky all play themselves. As a result, the first pure-Beat movie gives an authentic impression of beatnik habits and tastes...
Echoing Watson's remarks, Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, cautioned that in the struggle for the uncommitted nations, Russia had a "subversive arsenal of organizations which use the slogans of peace, friendship and coexistence. We have not answered the challenge if we limit ourselves merely to meeting the Kremlin's military threat." Watson's speech was greeted with some restraint. Later, it was liberally interpreted (Watson left for Europe immediately after the speech) by incoming N.A.M. President Rudolf F. Bannow, president of Bridgeport (Conn.) Machines, Inc. to mean that "if you give the economy...
What are the facts of Russia's claim to be outstripping the U.S. in growth? The one unarguable fact, Central Intelligence Agency's Allen Dulles recently told the Boiling "growth" subcommittee of Congress, is that at the outset of World War I, Russia was the world's sixth or seventh industrial power. But, said Dulles, "in the short space of 30 years since 1928, despite the ravages of four war years and several years of reconstruction, the Soviet Union has become second." Today, Dulles estimated, Russia's gross national product is around...