Word: daze
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...pulsing climax, then, rather unbelievably, push on past it. At the final peak Brubeck is often playing in two keys at once before he finally wrings his idea dry and the music subsides. When it is over, the jive fans look at each other in something like a daze before they burst into applause...
Dave Brubeck plays in a kind of daze of his own: he can never remember exactly what he did during his finest solos ("When I'm playing my best I never know my fingers are there"). But as a man who is conscious of his subconscious, he has decided that his best flights of fancy occur only when he can "get through...
...prolific writer (to get one short story published, he mimeographed his own newspaper, which lasted for two issues). He thought he might become a poet. Sample effort: "Girls are funny creatures / Though some have pretty features / And with their whims and ways / They can put boys in a daze." But his real passion was learning. Says he: "It never occurred to me not to get A's." Once he almost ran away from home when...
Tipping has found two aspects of Harvard that Australian universities lack--the House system and the Saturday football show. "We'd build Houses if we could afford it, but we could never take your football. I went to the Dartmouth game, and I'm still in a bloody daze. It's not the players so much but the daffy crowd. All the ballyhoo and cheering and such. But I guess that's what's meant by American spirit...
...woman's advantage. Item: men were no longer permitted to shamble, hang-stocking and grime-necked from the chase, into a lady's presence; instead, the bear-limbed barons were required to get up in gay, slashed mantles and pointed shoes and drench themselves in a daze of scent...