Word: gould
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the best players and the plushiest audience. The manners of that audience have always been notorious. On the dot of the bathing hour, no matter whose the match and what the score, a sizable group of spectators would retire from the stand as if by signal. Jay Gould would stamp through the festive crowds to the court-tennis court without so much as a glance at the lawn-tennis champions. The champions themselves paused between games to sip a Scotch & soda, a conviviality not unwelcome to the youthful Irish shackers (ball boys) in their cocky yachting caps, red sweaters...
...Gould, "the last of the bohemians," otherwise known as Professor Sea Gull Professor Bloomingdale, The Mongoose. Gould tells what it took to make him: "old Yankee blood, an overwhelming aversion to possessions, four years of Harvard, and 25 years of beating the living hell out of my insides with bad hooch and bad food." Joe professes never to be without his "three Hs" - homelessness, hunger, hangovers. On winter nights he sports a layer of newspapers between his shirt and undershirt. He is 5 ft. 4, weighs 95 lb., and trims his cinnamon beard every other Easter. Twenty-six years...
...Gould reported last week that Scribner's is interested in a fragment of his Oral History. Says Joe: "Willkie called his book One World. Mine will be called A Million Worlds. There are as many worlds as there are people, each having his own world. " Asked whether he liked his own world, Joe said: "I haven't decided...
Companion volumes by the same authors list Tibetan syllables according to phonetic values (English alphabetical order), Tibetan verbs, commonplace chater for travelers. But Gould & Richardson lope that their students, will not be unmoved by Tibetan's poetic quality, claim hat the language challenges Chinese in its imagery. The name, for example, of one of he most glorious Himalayan pinnacles, Canchenjanga, third highest in the world, means "The Five Storehouses of the Great Snow...
...forward the spirit of the times? At length Conductor Goossens wrote to 26 modern composers asking for instrumental flourishes of the sort known as fanfares. Nineteen responded. Six Goossens fanfares are now being played by the NBC Orchestra in six weekly broadcasts of Music at War.* They are Morton Gould's Fanfare for Freedom; Henry Cowell's Fanfare for the Forces of Our Latin-American Allies; Paul Creston's Fanfare for Paratroopers; Felix Borowski's Fanfare for American Soldiers; Leo Sowerby's Fanfare for Airmen; Goossens' Fanfare for the Merchant Marine...