Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Expert Hartkorn had finished, the Governor, now fully relaxed, entertained his visitors with his favorite diversion-playing the piano by rolling an apple swiftly and deftly across the keyboard. The meeting broke...
Ensign Donaldson misses his music--but will see to it those messages keep pounding out in communications just like he evokes magic from the keyboard...
...shapely brown shoulders and a round, roguish face, framed in a triangle of white light, showed above the grand piano's shining ebony. From the keyboard Chopin's Minute Waltz flowed fleetly, ripplingly. For a while it surged along according to Chopin. Then watchers saw an impish flicker of a smile, an insinuating movement of a shoulder. Came the first suggestion of a hot lick; another, and another. Then Hazel Scott began to "break it down," and was off in a wild mélange of pianistics, sweet, hot, Beethoven and Count Basic...
...legitimately, and for a brief while, triumphs. But gradually it becomes apparent that evil forces are struggling within her for expression. Strange notes and rhythms creep in, the melody is tortured with hints of boogie-woogie, until finally, happily, Hazel Scott surrenders to her worse nature and beats the keyboard into a rack of bones. The reverse is also true: into Tea for Two may creep a few bars of Debussy's Clair de Lune. Says wide-eyed Hazel: "I just can't help...
...Mitchell, extrovert and highly explosive, barged into obstacles with his head down. Introversive, highly diplomatic Air Secretary Lovett considers his adversaries carefully, always "pushing and squeezing," like a pilot flying a tight formation. Result is that he gets things done by pushing the right button instead of wrecking the keyboard...