Word: eclecticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As Lola, in Broadway's smash new musical Damn Yankees, a relative newcomer named Gwen Verdon (rhymes with spurred on) warms to her work like a flash fire in a dry thicket. Breathing a warning ("Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets . . .") that is already familiar to jukebox listeners all over...
The line-up for the psychiatrists: Dr. Joseph B. Wheelwright, British-educated Jungian; Dr. William A. Bellamy, Freudian; and Dr. Sam Nelken, an "eclectic" analyst who teaches at the University of California Medical School. For the priests: the Rev. Victor White, a Dominican, professor of theology at Oxford and lecturer...
Had is whole approach not been so modest, it would have seemed almost arrogant to wedge five short pieces by Levy himself between Brahms' gigantic variations and the sublime introspection of late Beethoven. His Piano Pieces Nos. 6, 8, 9, 12, and 18 seemed eclectic in origin, with traces of...
By taking his own amoral unconscious as a point of departure for half-romantic, half-eclectic labors Klee followed a great German tradition which began with Goethe. Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, mystic Rudolph Steiner and Psychologists Freud and Jung all worked the same way.
Eclectic. In lola, Kans., granted a divorce from Clara Kimzey, 70, and warned that he could not remarry for six months, Thomas Kimzey, 99, commented: "I understand that, Judge, but it won't keep me from browsing around."