Word: cante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of Prades are unlikely to forget the most distinguished of their adopted sons wherever he may be. Casals' former landlord has not yet removed from the walls of the cottage its widely famed label-"El Cant dels Ocells" (in Catalan, The Song of the Birds). It is the name of the popular folk air with which Cellist Casals, playing alone, will end this year's festival just as he ended all the others...
...exhilaration felt by TIME's Gilbert Cant after a few seconds' exposure to weightlessness [June 9]: May not weightlessness of longer duration produce an empyreal euphoria comparable to the "rapture of the deep"? What if buoyancy "to the point of exaltation" makes a modern inhabitant of the heavens decide...
...specific. Though Krock never mentions Reston by name in his critiques, there can be no doubt of his target. Items: ¶ Last week Reston cited in glowing terms the "serious and thoughtful" commencement address of Yale President Whitney Griswold, who said that "we have had enough of the pious cant that says the Sputniks were a good thing because they will wake us up. This is worse than making a virtue of necessity. It is making a virtue of disaster." Next...
...Hellion, Revlon's Fire and Ice, Helen Neushaefer's Torrid and Pink Pas sion; such creams as Max Factor's Cup of Youth and Helena Rubinstein's Tree of Life. It lends mystic significance to a word such as moisturizing and nurtures a euphemistic cant in which reducing becomes slenderizing, dye becomes hair color, and diet becomes menu plan. Its slogans have entered the language: "She's lovely, she's engaged, she uses Pond's"; "The Skin You Love to Touch"; "Which Twin Has the Toni...
...moon and planets. Reason: in the earth's atmosphere and gravity belt, this unearthly state can be created only for a fraction of a minute at a time. To learn at firsthand how it is done and what it feels like, TIME's Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant went weightless in one of the Air Force's fast jet fighters. His account...