Word: affectionate
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This national affection for the violin, says Jerusalem Critic-Composer Yohanan Boehm, stems from the days when the wandering Jews of Eastern Europe adopted the instrument from the gypsies. "The violin was inexpensive," says Boehm, "easy to carry, and it could cry and sing like the human voice. So it...
Cowell has a special affection for koto music. As a boy he lived in San Francisco's Japantown, was serenaded daily with Japanese music emanating from a koto school across the street from his home. When Eto approached him in 1960 with the idea of creating a koto concerto...
The present volume of letters charts the remainder and the darker portions of Ruskin's desperate sexual journey. Four years after the annulment Ruskin met Rosie La Touche, the pretty daughter of an Irish banker whose wife admired Ruskin's work. He fell deeply in love with Rosie...
More than likely you will find it a batty town, a town of extraordinary sophistication, of tension and irritability, of intellectuality and pseudo-intellectuality, of a haunted sort of joie de vivre, of disinterest, of anonymity, and, also, of lust, gentleness, altruism, and a peculiar brand of human affection. Some...
Pineapple pie-flavored serving ladies smile at jokes and quasi affectionate banter, but still give meager helpings of food. Even lavish compliments on the quality of the chow never clicit more than the two regulation eggs or one slice of London broil. These are the ladies whom the management has successfully intimidated. The presence of a man in a double-breasted suit behind the serving line often creates a whole row of pineapple pie-flavored ladies. The inveterate ones are usually either under 25 or over 80. They crave affection, but fear the whip...