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Word: harping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only way to learn to play the harp is to play the harp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Sunrise on the Gold Coast | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

Playwright Truman (The Grass Harp) Capote gave a reporter in Rome a hint about his next play, to be partly in verse. It will be located in the West Indies, he said, with an almost all colored cast, and is "about life in a house of ill fame or brothel or whatever you call these houses with women inmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 12, 1953 | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

Grows like a harp; a rich embroidery

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Florentine | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Perky, dimpled Doriot Anthony, 30, knows as well as anybody that the major orchestras eye female instrumentalists with suspicion (unless they play the harp†). She has held such positions as second flute in Washington's National Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, first flute in the NBC Standard (Los Angeles) and Hollywood Bowl Symphonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boston Picks a Woman | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...show called Frankly Esoteric (Sun. 10 p.m.), which she thinks will appeal to no more than 2% of WNEW's listeners. Described as "the last word in avant-garde art," Frankly Esoteric offered such noncommercial items as Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans and a harp solo by Nicanor Zabaleta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Esoterica | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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