Word: frailness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...working on Jean Santeuil. In a way, Proust was right. Jean Santeuil is primarily the trial run of Remembrance of Things Past. In it can be seen the fascinating spectacle of the great man growing in embryo-groping in the dark, exerting limbs that are still too frail to be usable, making movements that are uncertain and un controlled. Twenty years were to pass before Proust brought these beginnings to maturity (he died in 1922, before the last of Remembrance was published...
...frail-looking young pianist walked into the recording studio one day last June, wearing beret, coat, muffler and gloves, carrying two large bottles of spring water to drink, five small bottles of pills, and his own piano chair. Before he started to play, he soaked his hands and arms in hot water. Then he began a week's stint: recording Bach's difficult "Goldberg" Variations. Sometimes he sang as he played, and when he finished a "take" that particularly pleased him, he jumped up with a gleeful "Wow!" But when a piano note sagged by a hair...
Born in Rome, she was raised in Naples, quit school in the seventh grade and has not been known to read a book since. As a child, Sophia was called stecchetta (little stick) because she was so frail. But at 14 she blossomed into something approaching her present contours, entered a beauty contest, won third prize and was off to Rome. Two years later Italian Producer Carlo Ponti met her and launched her in the movies. In the next four years, she ground out 20 films, nine in 1953 alone. Mostly, they were a tribute to matter over mind...
...last election in 1954, Nuri es-Said and his sheiks obviously had things well under control: on election day, 122 of the 135 parliamentary seats were uncontested. Democracy this may not be, but by Middle East standards, it is good government. Now in his 15th premiership and growing frail and hard of hearing, Nuri is inclined to leave to his successors such matters as educating Iraqis to use the big public works his government is creating...
...widen its audience. CBS's Annie Oakley frankly aims at showing that the female is more deadly than the male, and on NBC's Frontier, the rustle of petticoats is fast drowning out the creak of chaps. In last week's show, plucky Beverly Garland, though frail, put-upon and pregnant, drove her weak-spirited menfolk and a herd of cattle more than 600 long miles, through drought, ambush and ennui, from parched Texas to verdant Wyoming. Subsequent Frontier programs will tell of Poker Alice (Joan Vohs), the coolest gambler on the plains, and the Long Road...