Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy will react to the first energy scarcity in its history. Explains Alan Greenspan, a consultant who frequently advises the Nixon Administration: "In classic forecasting, we have worked in a conceptual framework into which we have tried to put numbers based on history. But this is a whole new bird...
...must spend the better part of two hours following the adventures of a bird, far better that the hero be Daffy Duck than Jonathan Livingston Seagull...
...North. Eventually, settling down in the snow, he expires, his tail feathers quaking as he gives up the ghost. The ghost, however, will not be given up so easily and flies off to some spiritual never-never land. There, it-or he-is instructed in higher wisdom by a bird called Chiang, whose lessons in life and philosophy and heightened consciousness take a hint from Dale Carnegie, a leaf from Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and a volume from Kahlil Gibran. Thus enlightened, Jonathan is apparently reborn. He returns to his flock and spreads the good word in a sort...
Jonathan Livingston Seagull is the warmest, most goodhearted, most tuneful (score by Neil Diamond) piece of moral uplift since the musical version of Lost Horizon. Years hence, scholars may debate the significance of the fact that the wise elder in Shangri-La and the wise bird here are both called Chiang. Surely it is no mere coincidence. A homage, perhaps. Or maybe a moment of mystic communion, a stroke of magic enlightenment of the sort that Jonathan is always shoving his beak into...
...cello the way Casals did. He spent hours on a single phrase, days and weeks on a single movement, whole years on the Bach Suites for Unaccompanied Violoncello, which he was the first cellist ever to perform in their entirety. "People say I play as easily as a bird sings. If they only knew how much effort their bird has put into his song." He may have worshiped the masters, but once onstage he insisted on meeting them as an equal, employing powerhouse accents, theatrical contrasts and a ruddy tone with an infinite variety of shadings...