Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symphony. Complains one critic: "A listener's mood is broken-no, shattered -when he is removed from the tonal world that has just been established. And just because some inconsiderate couple felt like dawdling over their coffee." To teach latecomers a lesson, Stokowski once had his musicians wander idly off-and onstage while playing a Mozart symphony. Another time he turned to the audience and conducted the coughers: "All right, cough!" he commanded. "I want a rhythmic cough! Make it louder...
...some there are who wander the world looking for what is like unto themselves," old André Gide once mused. "But there are others, and I am one of these, who seek above all strangeness in things." Poet Elizabeth Bishop is another one of these. For more than 30 years, she has wandered the five continents in search of the intractable, in search of a beauty unbefriending and the poetry of the passing strange. Travel is her profession, and her art is the art of snapshot. Her poems are bright slides that commemorate in gloating color and big-pored detail...
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. A betrayed wife (Giulietta Masina) lets her mind wander off to a far-out Freudian three-ring circus conjured up by Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8½), whose effects are breathtaking to behold...
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. A betrayed wife (Giulietta Masina) lets her mind wander off to a far-out Freudian three-ring circus conjured up by Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8½ whose effects are breathtaking to behold...
...John L. Whitaker's Issaquah Villa, every patient who is able to get up is routed out of bed at 8 in the morning. They are encouraged to wander the grounds; each afternoon everyone is invited to formal tea. Whitaker and his staff, which includes his energetic wife Mary as administrator, carefully address each of the 86 patients by name, even those who are close to senility. Such continuous and careful respect for the individual is an important part of the Whitaker therapy. "Our aim," says the husky, gentle doctor, who was a crack Marine transport pilot in World...