Word: marveling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Fontanne, the Barenboim and Du Pré team proves that the sight and sound of two brilliant artists conquering continents hand in hand has a magical allure all its own. But there is far more to these players than such allure. Today Jacqueline's cello playing is a marvel of tonal beauty and instinctive emotion, backed by a prodigious technical grasp. As aurorally mellow as the late Emanuel Feuermann, as powerful of phrase as one of her former mentors Pablo Casals, Jacqueline is one of the most eloquent and soulful cellists alive...
...that we read about in the newspapers every morning and debated in our American problems seminar. Three dollars and eighty-two cents bought me a train ticket to the show. In the courtroom of the conspiracy trial that day I felt again like the country boy who could only marvel at all of this Americana (be it good or evil) and feel very lonely in my inability to absorb all that was happening...
COMIC BOOKS were written for escapists. You had to be willing to go more than half-way to sweat through Superman's struggle with Dr. Galiogne stretched over four issues, or The Masked Marvel's duel to the death with The Incredible Hydro-Man. But once you were there, they never let you down and the heroes of these super-worlds were soon embedded in America's collective imagery...
...month will do nothing to erase the suspicions. HEE HEE Bogeyman, and Honky Tonk, all published by Company and Sons, an underground company, are directed at the young freak audience that finds Robert Crumb's Head Comix and Felix the Cat less than fascinating, and the traditional Dell and Marvel labels absolutely boring. All three assume an acquaintance with hard drugs and are only formally connected with their heroic predecessors. More than surrealistic, gross visual explicitness washes each frame with a desperate finality. Where the cover of Felix the Cat shows Felix and his girlfriend cuddling, Honky Tonk depicts...
...marvel of Rosemary Brown is not that she has created these pleasant little works, but that she has convinced so many seemingly qualified people that there is some degree of authenticity to her claims. A musicologist, Dr George Firth, and an educator, Sir George Trevelyan, have set up a fund to relieve her of the necessity of working for a living while she devotes her time to transmitting her great works, and taking extensive training in musicology. You are, of course, entirely welcome to contribute...