Word: groves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-quarters of a century, the sun never set on Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. For archivists and amateurs, professors and performers around the world, England's queen-size compendium* was the first authority on the ways and means of music. But the fourth edition of Grove's (published in 1940) was much the same as the first (1878), and after World War II, London's Macmillan & Co. decided it was high time for a completely revised edition. After nearly ten years of labor-by about 500 contributors under the stern supervision of London...
Film to Concrete. Among the new developments since Grove IV: ¶ The phonograph (called gramophone in British English), which in 1940 got 3½ pages plus a perfunctory listing under MECHANICAL APPLIANCES (along with barrel organs and pianolas). gets eight pages in 1954, including the comment that "all over Europe . . . American technicians are to be found with their spools of recording tape." ¶ Film music, with no listing in Grove IV, gets 16 pages documenting the art from its early catch-all scores (catalogued as The Slimy Viper, Gruesome Misterioso, Love's Response, etc.) to background music by such...
Died. Edwin, David and Geoffrey Grove, young (8,6,4) sons of Edwin W. Grove Jr., patent medicine (Bromo Quinine) heir; in a fire that razed the Grove's Italian-style country home; in Northport, Me., while their mother was in Boston expecting another child...
...grandpa's seven granddaughters (Athena, Minerva. Niobe, Aphrodite, Calliope, Medea and Ceres) run a yoghurt, blackstrap and spinach-juice store, and after hours they take their eurythmics in the grove. Grandpa is delighted to meet Adam ("I liked the look of your sartorius muscle as soon as I saw you"), and invites him to a meal of peanutburgers. That night Athena sends Adam home with tokens of her love: a bag of raw vegetables and a bar bell...
TURGENEV: A LIFE (328 pp.)-David Magarshack-Grove...