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Sunday night's concert was the most uniformly excellent event of the Festival. It began with the American debut of a fine French pianist, Martial Solal. Solal showed that a solid classical background can be a great asset to a jazz musician. Harmonically, he is strongly influenced by modern European classical music. Otherwise, his main influence seems to be Bud Powell, who now lives in France. Solal avoids the "funky" cliches of jazz piano, but preserves a real jazz feeling. Working out his ideas with both hands, embellishing his phrases with trills, he created some wonderfully elegant improvisations...
...world today. Scientists need-and insist on-close contact with academic institutions and other cultural resources." Of wider significance, city planners all over the nation were taking a second look at their own gulches. For Abramovitz, Panther Hollow demonstrates how an eyesore can be made into an asset...
...leading characters became publicly identified: red-haired Christine Keeler, who came from Middlesex to sling hash at 17, and at 21 was the West End's most-called girl; John Profumo, 48, the able War Minister and man-about-Mayfair, whose virile charm proved something of a Tory asset after those homosexual spy scandals; and Dr. Stephen Ward, 43, a socialite osteopath (and son of the Anglican canon of Rochester Cathedral), who said he liked helping attractive girls of humble birth adapt to "the needs and stresses of modern living...
...bears the stamp of Kerr's knack for mediation. Faced with the task of uniting California's vast network of universities, state and junior colleges, Kerr saw "that there would have to be an agreement sometime," and forged what has since been hailed as California's most alluring asset...
...varsity could--and should--be going faster, but they have experience as an asset and I hope that will see them through," Cabot said. He said that the varsity was being slowed by a new shell, but added that this should pose no problem today...