Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...funds as usual, the composer sent a note to his friend Franz Hofdemel, imploring the loan of 100 gulden (about $500 in today's money). As an added persuasion, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart hinted that as a Freemason, he might be helpful in backing Hofdemel's candidacy for the same order. History does not record whether Mozart repaid the loan. But last week the letter, written in 1789, just two years before the composer's death, brought $5,738 at an auction in Cologne-more than ten times the asking price...
...resort in the Catskills, she has appeared on most of the network variety shows, including Merve Griffin for the 34th time last week, and has played Caesars Palace in Vegas with Frank Sinatra. She has a big three-octave range and reaches high C with ease in Johnny One Note. Like Karen, Julie belongs chronologically to the Woodstock Nation, but her spirit lies in Tin Pan Alley. Their repertory is mostly golden oldies, and so is their following. "Adults dig me better than kids," says Julie, though she adds: "My parents are not ready for me." Her father, vice president...
...approbation injected a new note of self-confidence into his painting. His colors grew warmer and more radiant, his scale ever grander. He turned to sculpture; his most singular work, Broken Obelisk, today stands in Houston as a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. Intuitive, romantic, passionate, he unabashedly was. "But more than anything else," said Critic Lawrence Alloway last week, "he showed how to do the most with the least...
...group knew that gasoline comes from petroleum, 69% that a galaxy contains many stars. But only 58% of the country's 17-year-olds, despite their proximity to science teachers, realized that matter consists of individual moving particles, and a mere 46% knew that the higher a musical note, the higher the frequency and the shorter the wavelength. Many were prone to misconceptions: asked which of five characteristics is peculiar to birds, only half correctly chose "a body covering of feathers" (more than one-fourth fell for "ability...
Cultural Carpetbagger. In his unique and cheerful way, Author Desani is a one-man tower of Babel, a cultural carpetbagger who hawks the flotsam and jetsam of at least five civilizations and three continents, with odd lots of Latin, Shakespeare and the Bible thrown in. His peculiar comic note derives not only from this exotic mixture, but also from his sweet-tempered narrative of sour experiences. The punning jumble that results might be called a cracked hymn to the Joyce and sorrows of life...