Word: handly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time that a boy bounced a ball against a wall. Most authorities credit Irish immigrants of the 1840s with introducing the formal game to the U.S., where it found an early fan in Abraham Lincoln. In the modern, furiously fast sport, the ball can be hit with either hand (hand-ballers consider rackets sissy stuff). The most difficult shot is a "fly kill." in which the player takes the ball in the air off the front wall, hits it against a side wall at a sharp angle so that it has lost nearly all its forward speed...
Running or just puttering, U.S. hand-ballers compete on courts ranging from a single concrete wall in a Brooklyn park to the four-walled, all-glass, air-conditioned, $32,000 pleasure dome given to an Aurora, Ill. Y.M.C.A. by Robert W. Kendler, founder and president of the U.S. Handball Association and chief evangelist of a sport of evangelists. Kendler lives for handball; on the side, he is a Chicago millionaire (building construction). Kendler bristles at the imputation that his game is a lowbrow cousin of squash, can point to such distinguished handballers as Literary Critic Lionel Trilling and television...
...Madras" Symphony was scored for a normal symphony orchestra minus trumpets, trombones and tubas. Added were tablas (tuned Indian hand drums) and the jalatarang (a set of eleven porcelain rice bowls of different pitch, depending on size and thickness). The players of the tablas and jalatarang had their entrance cues but were otherwise free to improvise, if necessary, around Cowell's themes. It was a languorous, curiously hypnotic work, with a wavering melodic line that occasionally died away before syncopated flights of the tablas. Said one Indian observer: "A mood as lovely as twilight...
...Weather and Bad Day at Black Rock. By "cheating every minute," he has managed to turn out a symphony and a quantity of piano works and chamber music. As a concert pianist, he admires the moderns-Copland, Barber. Prokofiev, Hindemith, Bartok-but he has also recorded all the four-hand piano music of Mozart, with his good friend Composer Lukas Foss. His jazz manner is all his own: a fanciful, highly individualistic style, characterized by kaleidoscopic rhythmic shifts, trip-hammered treble runs and a discreetly swinging left hand punctuated by sudden stops and breaks. He heads a combo that performs...
...Bridges, ships and heavy artillery are sometimes expensive." says Diego de Henriquez. "Castles, on the other hand, are relatively cheap. Sometimes even free...