Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balancing these two prose sketches is The Purification, a verse play which offers the only real chance for experimental work. Williams, in combining wild imagery, a guitar player, and a chorus, has attempted to give unwarranted significance to absurd instance of human frailty. Set in the western deserts, the play takes the form of a trial in which incest and murder provide the basis for quantities of poetry...
...well with Ava's own heart. She only feels at home "with my feet in the dirt." And while waiting for her dream prince, she keeps earthy trysts with guitar players, chauffeurs and gypsy dancers. Meanwhile she merely flirts with Millionaire Stevens and a South American playboy (Marius Goring), until at last she finds true but tragic love with an Italian count (Rossano Brazzi...
...Guitar Recital (Luise Walker; Epic). Solo works by such bygone masters of the classical guitar as Fernando Sor and Francisco Tarrega and a three-movement Concertino for Guitar and Orchestra by the contemporary Brazilian composer, Guido Santorsola, accompanied by the Vienna Symphony under Paul Sacher. The big work is ideal for records, where the quiet colors of the solo instrument can be clearly heard and its gently modern effects fall pleasantly...
Across the jack-pine hills of Idaho came the twang of a familiar guitar and the whine of an even more familiar baritone lustily singing: "From this valley they say you are going, / We will miss your sweet face and your smile." Glen Taylor, troubadour politician, ex-Senator (1944-50) and Henry Wallace's vice-presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket in 1948, had come home from self-imposed exile in California to ask a favor from the voters. Said Taylor: "I want to go back to Washington because I want...
Taylor tuned up his guitar for the fall campaign against G.O.P. Senator Henry Dworshak. In Washington, Senator Dworshak heard the news, ran a hand through his ample hair and braced himself for a vigorous campaign to "clarify the issues...