Word: alphabets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother, Elena Ivanovna, who lived on in exile until 1939, read aloud to Vladimir in three languages. More important, she encouraged his attempts at poetry and nourished his susceptibility to sound and color. Mother and son shared a strong sense that certain colors and certain letters of the alphabet are related?p was an unripe apple green, for instance; y's and u's had a brassy "olive sheen." Matching colors and letters, Nabokov evolved a new private word, Kzspygv, which meant but did not spell "rainbow...
Closing the Loopholes. To offset part of that loss, Nixon would close some of the controversial loopholes used by the wealthy to avoid taxes. The most spectacular item is a proposed limit on tax preferences-or LTP, as alphabet-minded Washington dubbed it. It would place a 50% ceiling on the amount of a taxpayer's income above $10,000 that is eligible for favored treatment. Income would have to include the appreciated value of property donated to charity, and the ceiling would restrict the amount of deductions that a taxpayer could take for 1) oil-depletion allowances...
Well she might be. The extraordinary reputation of Martha Graham as a creator of dance steins not merely from the fact that she invented a new alphabet of movement, but that she then also applied that alphabet to the making of words and sentences. Any modern dancer today owes practically his whole range of action to her pioneering. More important, Martha Graham incorporated that vocabulary of movement into a series of dances that leave an audience both stunned and baffled, touched and terrified by the power of motion to create a mirror of the human psyche. Says Teacher-Choreographer Jeff...
...ballet, which had been worked out largely as a series of infinite variations on two basic motions, the walk and the bow. To Graham, any human movement was a dancer's possibility, the fall to the floor no less than the leap into the air. She brought the alphabet forward from A and B all the way to Z. She emerged when Sigmund Freud was a major cultural hero. Partly as a result of his influence, she developed a symbolism that replaced ballet's traditional boy-meets-girl, boy-throws-girl-into-air narrative forms with an infinity...
...ALPHABET TREE, by Leo Lionni (Pantheon; $3.95), is tops on the list of picture books that teach as well as amuse. The letters, coached by a word bug and a purple caterpillar, cling to the tree and to one another to say "something important-peace...