Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoffenstein, 57, master writer of satiric light verse (Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A wry-writing favorite of Manhattan's wry-minded literary set in the late '20s, Hoffenstein (who had written, I'd rather listen to a flute in Gotham, than a band in Butte) disappeared into Hollywood as a scenario writer, later explained: "In the movies we writers work our brains to the bone, and what do we get for it? A lousy fortune...
...Enlightenment, and not, like Adolf Hitler, a psychopathic noncom. He paid noble homage to Voltaire until the crafty genius abused his friendship by promising to report confidentially to the French court on what Frederick was up to. Frederick patronized the arts, practiced philosophy, loved poetry and composed for the flute. Just as significant as any of these gifts, however, were his personal candor and his lack of principle; he fooled and defrauded others, but he willingly, if secretly, admitted the frauds. Frederick was secretive and an adept at dissimulation ("If I thought that my shirt or my skin knew anything...
...Chicago's Carey Temple (African Methodist Episcopal). She gave the audience a curtsy, saw that her doll Rosezarian was seated on a chair beside the grand piano, then clambered up on the bench and began a Bach minuet. After that and a selection from Mozart's Magic Flute, her teacher had to ask the audience to hold their applause until the first part of the recital was over. Altogether, Margaret played 14 pieces, including Schubert's Ave Maria and Brahms's Cradle Song...
...except for the Boy Scouts, who were holding their first Jamboree (see EDUCATION) since the war, and the economists, who were trying to implement the "Marshall approach." The Scouts got on fine; their favorite pastime was the barter of their various treasures-scouting insignia, penknives, hats, fountain pens, a flute, a flock of horned toads (brought by delegates from Texas). Essentially, the economists from 16 European nations were engaged in the same activity...
With the emissaries came south India's most famous player of the nagasaram, a special kind of Indian flute. Like other sannyasis, who abstain from hair-cutting and hair-combing, the two emissaries wore their long hair properly matted and wound round their heads. Their naked chests and foreheads were streaked with sacred ash, blessed by Sri Amblavana. In an ancient Ford, the evening of Aug. 14, they began their slow, solemn progress to Nehru's house. Ahead walked the flutist, stopping every 100 yards or so to sit on the road and play his flute for about...