Word: meandering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summer music festivals usually meander through the hot weather months peacefully masticating a cud of predigested opera and alfalfa-flavored chamber music. A notable and daring exception has been New York's Empire State Music Festival, which five years ago pledged itself to new or rarely performed works. In a sprawling tent at Ellenville, N.Y., the festival presented the Eastern premiere of Stravinsky's Canticum Sacrum, the premiere of a ballet by Villa-Lottos, Sibelius' music for The Tempest and Strauss's Elektra, Carl Orff's score for Midsummer Night's Dream...
...born in 1899-he does not remember the month or day. He was orphaned soon after birth, thereby fell heir to 30,000 acres of cotton and wheat land watered by the river known to the Turks as the Menderes and to the ancient Greeks as the Meander. (It was affection for his birthplace that led the dynamic Adnan to choose so undescriptive a surname when in 1934 the late great Kemal Ataturk, father of modern Turkey, ordered all Turks to take a family name...
...plateau near by. On either side of the great central rift, Middle Africa's land stretches out in vast monotonous terraces that drop in sudden sharp steps from 6,000 ft. to the level of the sea like the tiered bastions of some huge island fortress. Its rivers meander in wide swings and detours on their path to the sea, now rushing at breakneck speed through some narrow gorge, now cascading in a sheer drop of 350 ft. or more to the level below as does the Zambezi at Victoria Falls, now widening their banks to flow in lazy...
Anyone who happened to meander about yesterday afternoon might have noticed the number of long, chrome-plated automobiles lined up at stoplights. Many of the cars seemed to be Oldsmobiles; or were they Packards or Plymouths? Not that it matters, because they all looked alike--"streamlined"--with from two to four headlights projecting from the front. Their drivers also looked alike, perhaps because they all wore grey-beige topcoats and felt hats, perhaps only because none of them smiled. Each one sat in his huge car, staring ahead tightlipped, with his window rolled up as if to say "No solicitors...
Thirty years of Turkish politics have calloused any soft spots in Menderes' disposition. Born to cotton-planting wealth (in a family that took its name from the River Meander of classic fame), he studied at the American College in Izmir, took a law degree but has never practiced. Menderes dislikes criticism-none of his original Cabinet has survived in the same office. "Anybody who shows any spirit goes out," says a British observer. Because 90 Democratic Deputies showed enough spirit to object to his quick decree of martial law after the riots, Menderes last week fired one of their...