Word: blisse
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Died. Sir Arthur Bliss, 83, English composer and Master of the Queen's Musick; at his home in London. Bliss startled staid English audiences after World War I with his chromaticism and unusual instrumental combinations in works like Rout (for ten instruments and a soprano who sings nonsense syllables) and A Colour Symphony. He later wrote film scores, notably for the 1939 H.G. Wells' fantasy Things to Come, ballet music (including The Lady of Shalott for the San Francisco Ballet) and an opera, The Olympians, with a libretto by J.B. Priestley. Named court composer in 1953, the musical...
...Erica Jong's heroine's idea of sexual bliss [Feb. 3] seems to derive from masculine flatulence and her partner's unwashed feet. It is not uninhibited openness but commercialism; not Molly Bloom or the powerfully abominable Henry Miller, but a shrewd hawking of The Most Repulsive as The Most Sincere, in keeping with Madison Avenue gospels. Male characters, supposedly psychoanalysts and Freudians, speak and act like disgusting junior-high-schoolers with IQs of 70. Ms. Jong so often refers to herself as a writer that a suspicion arises whether she is not just someone...
...more candid moments, some baldies confide that all is not Brylcreemless bliss. They are bothered by sunburned scalps and cool breezes. BHMA member Palmer complains that whenever he eats his favorite spicy Mexican food, his bare scalp sweats profusely. Other baldies confess that their billiard-ball crests age them prematurely. Gripes one: "I was the only kid in the third grade who looked like he was in school on the G.I. Bill." But to most men whose hairlines have disappeared, happiness is a bald head. Says Senator Garn: "God has made very few perfect heads. The rest of them...
Basho persuades Shogo's prime minister to go back with him to the deep North and enlist the aide of the "barbarians" in defeating Shogo and freeing the city. The barbarians turn out to be a British Commodore whose favorite saying is "ignorance is bliss," and his sister Georgina, a tambourine-waving soul saver. They all return to the South and a series of battles between Shogo's armies and the soldiers of the Commodore follow, with first one then the other side victorious, until finally Shogo is defeated and killed...
SHOW BUSINESS. Symphony orchestras, opera houses and dance companies have been financially strapped in the best of times; now many are struggling for survival. Washington's National Ballet halted operations last summer. Directors of New York's Metropolitan Opera elevated Anthony A. Bliss over General Manager Schuyler G. Chapin to the new post of executive director. Bliss's mission: to restore economic health to the Met, whose deficit is expected to be $9 million this year. On the pop scene, attendance at rock concerts promoted by Howard Stein Enterprises has fallen 25% to 40% below that...