Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morris is the first to admit that much of his inspiration comes from Pacific Coast landscape. To find it, he need go no farther than the front door of his cliffside house, where he lives with his wife, Sculptress Hilda Morris, and ten-year-old son David. "Frequently fog makes islands of trees, very Oriental. This dissolves into misty atmosphere and double horizons. There's a vertical and horizontal thing going on, with the trees making the verticals." But Morris punctures the critics who have made a cult of the North west's Orient-influenced mysticism: "I guess...
...their palms, it would take perhaps two seconds for the sound to die to inaudibility. Result: when an orchestra played, it sounded mellow, sometimes foggy. Composers wrote symphonies to be performed under those conditions, and musicians played their instruments no better than necessary to pass muster under the mellow fog. Until the electronic age, except for musicians playing outdoors, everybody was accustomed to the old sound. When Toscanini first walked into NBC's studio 8-H, he clapped his hands, heard the echo die within a second and passed his judgment: "Too sec" i.e., dry. He was referring...
Bound for Stuttgart airport on a fog-shrouded Autobahn, a bus carrying Germany's Pianist Walter Gieseking, 60, crashed into a bridge abutment at 70 m.p.h., brought death to two of its 18 passengers. One of the dead: Gieseking's wife Anna Maria, 66. Famed Musician Gieseking, removed from Allied blacklists in 1946 after his eleven years as an unreluctant performer under Hitler, sustained "serious" head injuries but no hurt to the hands that have made him famous...
...interpreter of contemporary music, dropped his arms, and the orchestra stopped; but instead of silence, a frightful, apocalyptic roar came from one of the two loudspeaker units. At first it seemed to have no connection with the preceding part, but then it began to come clear through the clangorous fog: many of the rhythms were regurgitations of foregoing rhythms. Twice more the taped sounds interrupted the orchestra, each time became more drastic, until the effect was of actual terror, as machine-gun bursts alternated with animal wails, with monstrously loud cricket chirps, with the sounds of huge crowds of faceless...
...heard the thundering shock wave of his dive to the sea. Their teacher, Mrs. Pearl Phillipson, suggested that they write to him, urging him to get well. It was these childish letters, read aloud by a nurse, that he heard when he first awoke. Then, like shapes looming through fog, details of his flight came out of his memory...