Word: blindness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...taste in jazz bands had changed a bit, if only slightly: up into first place, nosing out last year's favorite, Woody Herman, went Progressive Jazzman Stan Kenton. For the second time in Down Beat, blind British Pianist George Shearing and his Quintet won the "best instrumental combo" title. For the ninth time, Spike Jones was elected "King of Corn." Runner-up: Guy Lombardo...
...want to seal the enemy's eyes and ears as completely as possible," Mao Tse-tung once wrote about the Japanese, whom, he now says, the Americans have replaced. "We want to render them blind and deaf; we want to take the heart out of their officers; we want to throw them into utter confusion, driving them insane...
Course No. 6. Some of the five courses above can be partly combined and modified-and a sixth course is always possible. This is to continue the policy of drift, of blind stumbling from crisis to crisis, of leaving the initiative (the choice of time, place and weapons) always in the hands of the enemy...
...compiled mostly from old records, which traces the long journey of jazz, both hot and blue, from contemporary (i.e., U.S.) origins. It includes such rare and worthwhile items as the Negro sermon (with accompanying chanting) Dry Bones; the wordless wonders of Dark Was the Night, intoned by "spiritual" singer Blind Willie Johnson; Black Snake Moan, moaned by Blind Lemon Jefferson (Lead Belly's teacher); performances by such favorites as Bessie Smith, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Jimmy Yancey and Louis Armstrong...
Fifty nursery school children start the day's program with kindergarten from 9 to 12. The blind come early in the afternoon, and neighborhood children turn up shortly after 3 p.m. to play under supervision, learn handicrafts, or attend cooking and sowing classes...