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...counsel of Soviet Cellist Mstislav Rostropoyich, he made his cello concerto one of his loveliest works. Here it is impeccably performed by Erich Leinsdorf, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Cellist Samuel Mayes in a recording that also includes Gabriel Fauré's noble little Élēgie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 3, 1964 | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...tale loups along wi' a high jink an' diddle, an' forbye 'twill gie the whole bairntime a blype o' kecklin an' snirtlin. Attour, the spunkie singin' o' Brochan Lorn Tana Lorn an' the sicht o' the banks an' braes o' bonnie Argyll in sic a spairge o' green an' gowd is like to hae the harigals out o' ony mon wi' a drap o' Scottish bluid, an' that's the fu' graip o' gulravage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Blype o' Clishmaclaver | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Last week La Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (transit authority) embarked upon an experiment designed to give the subway a daintiness hitherto found only in boudoir and meadow. Each train traveling two of the main routes across Paris was equipped with an atomizer through which gushed a jet of perfume. On the Vincennes-Neuilly line, the fragrance was Eau de Cologne; on the Orleans-Clignancourt line, a workmen's route, it was Essence of Pine. "My," said one happy office worker arriving at his desk, "the Metro smelled deliciously today." But after a careful sniff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Essence of Metro | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

When I mount the creepie-chair,* Wha will sit beside me there? Gie me Rob, I'll seek nae mair, The rantin dog, the daddie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Never Gallop Alone | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...some Power the giftie gie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1950 | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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