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...Shame on U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge [Sept. 23], who greeted Ky "fulsomely as the election results became clear." According to Webster, the ambassador was guilty of being "offensive; disgusting; esp., offensive from insincerity or baseness of motive; as, fulsome praise...
Another plus for Random House, except for the most fastidious word worriers, is that its computer-compiled definitions are relatively concise. It first defines anthropomorphic as "ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, esp. to a deity." Webster's repetitiously expands this to "described or conceived in a human form or with human attributes: represented with human characteristics or under a human form: ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things: crudely human or man-centered in character...
...BAFFLING WORLD OF ESP (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Basil Rathbone narrates a study of extrasensory perception, using films of actual ESP experiences and lab experiments to explore telepathy, clairvoyance and the power of mind over matter. Among those interviewed are Menninger's Gardner Murphy and Yale's Henry Margenau...
...nails, make a little exercise on the piano. But once I pass the door on to the stage, all my energies get together and I become as quiet as possible. I always look for my receiver at the beginning of a concert. I sincerely believe in magnetic emanations?ESP, mediums?all of it. Once I find my receiver?it can be anyone, a sexy young girl, an old man?I play to him. The rest of the audience assists...
Prokofiev's score, ably conducted by Julius Rudel, is appropriately dissonant and heavily percussive. Soprano Schauler, whose surmounting of Prokofiev's vocal obstacle course was achievement enough, proved a splendid actress as well. But then, as one who admits to powers of ESP, she was a natural for the role. As for seeing flaming angels, she says she took lessons from her five-year-old son, Jeffrey, who had an invisible playmate named Timothy...