Word: fragmentism
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...Chopin, Liszt and Gershwin. Now I will play it in the manner of Bernstein." Then, as a proud Samuel Bernstein ("You don't expect your child to be a Moses, a Maimonides, a Leonard Bernstein") listened misty-eyed, Lenny launched into his own expanded version of a fragment of Jewish liturgical music entitled Meditations on a Prayerful Theme My Father Sang in the Shower...
Boroff records a conversation fragment with a Radcliffe campus U.S.A.: "While I was having lunch at Radcliffe someone referred to a magazine story about Harvard-Radcliffe romance. 'Does it deal with a seduction?' I asked. 'No,' a girl snapped, 'It deals with an affair...
Taylor eventually was wounded in the rump by a mortar fragment while making a tour of a forward area against the angry advice of a sergeant, who warned of the alert enemy. When Taylor was hit, the sergeant stormed up to his rescue with an attitude that was anything but solicitous: "Goddammit. General, now do you believe me?" Taylor spent ten days in the hospital, but made his staff keep his name off the wounded list for fear he would lose his command...
...Italy he often sketched on the backs of the Mussolini portraits that hung in most Italian homes. "I was no hero," says Mauldin. "I wasn't leading a perilous life." But he got close enough to the shooting to be superficially injured by a mortar shell fragment in fighting near Cassino in 1943. Applying for a fresh Band-Aid, he was handed a Purple Heart to go with it-and turned the incident into an incisive cartoon. "Just gimme a coupla aspirin," says Willie to the Medical Corpsman offering him a medal. "I already got a Purple Heart...
...fragment of painted plaster gave Professor Carettoni reason to hope that something interesting might be inside the rooms; with infinite patience he removed the earth and rubble from three sides...