Word: dumfounding
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...conductor's profession today bears as little resemblance to what it was 50 years ago as does the life of an astronaut to a World War I pilot's. Even within the present generation, the changes in the music world would dumfound a Toscanini. Orchestras have grown up, spawned offshoots and multiplied; there are 1,400 in the U.S. today, from small-town groups of amateur noodlers to massive metropolitan institutions. Festivals have flowered in tropical profusion. Recordings and TV have created vast new outlets. The jet airplane has catapulted careers into global orbit. Musicians who used...
...solar plexus," said D. H. Lawrence). Dead & gone are many a writer, artist, anarchist, psychiatrist, birth-controller who enlivened that salon -Big Bill Haywood, John Reed, Isadora Duncan, Arthur Brisbane, Lincoln Steffens, Amy Lowell, Edwin Arlington Robinson. On the site where Mabel once "proceeded to startle, delight and dumfound the town," where she "caught men between the eyes, held them magnetized, fascinated, charmed, as men will be by the allure of a woman's lively calling essence" - nothing now remains to mark the spot except a gaping excavation...
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