Word: frailing
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...serving the Allies but were understandably nervous. Neither American use of the Imperial institution, nor Japanese reverence for it, necessarily required the indefinite presence of Hirohito himself. Jap and U.S. thoughts alike were much upon Hirohito's son, eleven-year-old Prince Akihito, and the Emperor's frail younger brother, Prince Chichibu, the logical (but not inevitable) choice for regent...
...Prokofieff, is a "Victory" symphony, to complete his war trilogy which began with the brassy, repetitious Seventh ("Leningrad"). It has an unorthodox five instead of four movements, but is shorter (25 minutes) than most symphonies. Shostakovich, who wrote it in ten weeks after three false starts, was afraid his frail little Ninth would not stand up against Beethoven's great Ninth ("a frightening responsibility") or the critics. "They'll say, 'We expected something grandiose from you and you are giving us a lark.' " Reported Robert Magidoff of NBC, who heard it: "sensitive, playful and irresistible...
...Hour. When the big news came at last, the President called his Cabinet and the top men of the war bureaus. Anotner call went out at the President's order to frail, white-haired Cordell Hull. As the official family gathered in the Oval Room, the President beamed his greetings...
Visiosn of Saint Francis. Pierrette Regimbal is a frail, pale child, seventh in a French Canadian family of twelve. Since early childhood she has been lame. One day about five years ago Pierette was playing near home when she believed she saw Saint Francis of Assisi. She touched the saint's hands. Then she saw that her own hands were bloodstained. Her lameness, she said, was momentarily cured. (She still uses crutchees...
Lampooner & Landscaper. Shelby's painter was Terence Duren, frail, 40, ferocious lampooner of womanhood, an ex-Chicago Art Institute instructor, ex-Greenwich Village freelancer. For the occasion, he dolled up his studio, a former mortuary off Shelby's Main Street, with bouquets of gladioli in milk pails. He also painted his potbellied stove azure and white...