Word: aeolian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hyperthyroidism types are touchy, temperamental, "respond to the environment like an Aeolian harp." They are emotionally sensitive, and can be upset by harsh words or looks. Their moods swing so wildly between ecstasy and depression that they may become insane; many are artists, poets, actors, writers. They are emotionally immature, often sexually cold...
When Rhapsody in Blue was first played -with young Composer George Gershwin at the piano and Paul Whiteman's big, brassy band shattering the serenity of Manhattan's Aeolian Hall-neither audience nor critics liked their first taste of concert jazz. The Herald Tribune objected to its "complete lifelessness." Most audiences, if not critics, have changed their tune in the 21 years since then...
...simplicity and reasonable fidelity. Newcomer Robert Alda looks enough like Gershwin and, with the aid of some astute photography, fakes his piano playing skilfully enough to be convincing in the cacophony of Remick's, a music publishing company, and impressive at a concert grand in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall...
...Tyrrhenian Sea the U.S. Navy captured the storied Lipari (or Aeolian) Islands. A volcanic cluster where the Greeks housed their god of the winds and the Black. Shirts jailed their political enemies, the Lipari in Allied hands help assure Allied dominance of the waters triangulated by Sicily, Sardinia and lower Italy...
...Germanic Museum Organ, by the way, continues to be owned not by Harvard University but by the Aeolian-Skinner Company which built it. And the Friends of the Bach Organ, an enthusiastic group of patrons, continues struggling to raise the sum that Aeolian-Skinner demands for it. As to why the University has done nothing about purchasing the organ-that should perplex no one. The Corporation just isn't interested. It will barter its birthright to acquire a new scientific instrument, or some rare species of flora for the Arnold Arboretum, but when it comes to seeing the value...