Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vices of Tokyo have been toned down for the Games. Lady Diet members pushed through a law requiring the masseuses in Tokyo's "hotsie bath" emporiums to wear robes instead of bikinis, and the police have enacted a midnight curfew that has already gone into effect...
...concerts from Tel Aviv to Glasgow this summer, has also fulfilled a dizzying round of recording, teaching and conducting engagements. The crescendo comes each year in June and August, when Menuhin presides over two top-notch festivals, at Gstaad in Switzerland, which he himself inaugurated and directs, and Bath in England...
...success of his festivals comes from Menuhin's determined attempts to keep them from succeeding in any conventional sense. Performers are scantily paid, audiences are limited, and the programs are the rarest of musical fare. They are holidays for strings. He regards the meeting of musicians at Bath and Gstaad as "private festivals for Yehudi and friends, with the public tolerated-it's very much a family affair...
Despite Menuhin's disregard for audiences, the Bath and Gstaad festivals are more popular than ever. "People are ready for such a novel approach," he says. "Besides, it's the only thing that prevents musicians like myself from getting stale." Menuhin is brimming with new projects, most notably London's Yehudi Menuhin School for musically gifted children, which he founded last year "to preserve our species from extinction." Last week the itch to move along was upon him again. Gazing up at the snow-veined mountains, he mused: "Pretty soon we will be traveling again . . . linking, bridging...
...with any associations flagwise purely coincidental and absolutely not intended. The colors are red, white and blue, all right, but Betsy Ross didn't patent the scheme. And, most important, the stars and stripes never appear together at the same time on the same sheet, pillowcase or reversible bath towel (stars or stripes, never both, border the sheets, mix or match with towels and pillowcases in overall prints of either pattern). As a final disclaimer, the sheet and pillowcase stripes are slanted. Price: $3.99 a single sheet, $1.39 a pillowcase, $2.99 a towel...