Word: catting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient, Salter prescribes "excitatory" exercises. First & foremost is "feeling-talk." The sentence, "Today is Friday" is dry, inhibited "fact-talk." Salter would rather hear his patient getting some emotional outlet by saying, "Thank heavens, today is Friday and the weekend is here." There is also "facial talk": if a cat purrs when it is happy and a dog howls when its paw is stepped on, so should a man-or at any rate, scowl. From this it is.a mere step to another Salter prescription: "Contradict and attack. When you differ with someone, do not simulate agreeability...
Fate grinds him small. The mighty Knight of the Lions (as he now calls himself) is laid up for a week by the claws of a pussy cat. He is paraded through Barcelona with a placard on his back...
...right to play Ravel, but not with this band and not in a place where people want to dance. Artie is O.K. when he plays the Shaw stuff that everyone likes-like Stardust. But most of the time he's too kittenish, too much cat." Said another: "His orchestrations are awful, he's imitating too many other bands." Actually, Artie had been using a good many of his original ten-year-old dance orchestrations...
...intelligentsia, his tastes were still simple, his prices low (?5 to ?15 a picture). Some days he worked over his board as many as 15 hours, turned out pictures in two days. Afternoons at 4, however, he took time off to have tea with his landlady's cat...
...With a cat-like grin and a big serve, Schroeder easily dusted off his first three Forest Hills opponents last week. He was clearly pleased at being seeded No. 1 in the tournament, over young (21) up & coming Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, the defending champion; there were moments when it seemed that Schroeder's big reason for entering the big show was to prove to several old adversaries (including Billy Talbert, Frank Parker and Pancho) that he was still boss...