Word: arms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back," she remembered, "I walked down to the Yard and sat on the steps of Widener. It was the first warm day in such a long time. There was a boy sitting near me dressed in corduroys. He had a wise old face and the kind of arm you knew--well, you knew could cradle the head of a beloved as well as fill out income tax forms. We started talking...
...Swarowsky, conducting is "the art of the little movement," and the wrist-not the arm-is the key. Since most young conductors tend to weave and wave like hysterical herons, he takes drastic steps to restrict them to wrist movements. In practice sessions with the Academy's student orchestra, he makes them stand still and beat time only with the right hand, keeping the arm tied to a chair or held out stiffly in front of them. He teaches that the conductor is "a necessary evil" who can be crucial to the preparation and rehearsal of a score...
Moonlit Pilots. By any reckoning, CAT has had more than one life. Caught in China's civil war, Chennault's outfit snarled Communist timetables of conquest by ferrying soldiers and supplies to the mainland. In the process, CAT became Nationalist China's civilian transport arm and the most shot-at airline in history. When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan, CAT went along. From time to time, its crackerjack pilots moonlighted, accepting such missions as dropping French paratroopers into Dienbienphu...
...supporters. A few hours later, some 40 miles from Jaunpur, the 50-year-old president of India's second largest political party - the Jana Sangh - was found dead by the side of the tracks, with a crushed skull and fractures of eight ribs, an ankle and an arm. Authorities said that Upadhyaya may have fallen from the train, but the Jana Sangh party called his death "a politically motivated, cold-blooded murder...
Scott's triumph is Visitor from Forest Hills, a zany wedding tableau in which an irate father, pressed past mind and pocketbook, cannot budge his distraught daughter out of a locked bathroom to the altar. He threatens, he cajoles, he implores. He nearly breaks his arm ramming the door. He rends his cutaway till it looks like sackcloth and he looks like ashes. Scott's countenance of epic frustration is phenomenally funny: a middle-aged Lear confronted with a thankless offspring. The evening's master treat, a carnival of sight-and-sound gags, this skit shows...