Word: hens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York bachelor apartments. He gave up reviewing, he says, because "after 14 years, I had reviewed all the artists there were and all the kinds of music there are; you go on repeating yourself after that." Nowadays he never listens to records, composes as regularly, he says, "as a hen lays eggs." Contemporary music, he thinks, is in pretty sad shape: "Practically none of the music reviewers like any of the music they hear, or like any musical event." And what about the public? "The truth about the public," says Composer Thomson sadly, "is that they have been oversold...
...another of their nonsensical crusades ("Oh, never have we ever been on such a trip as this/ We're headed for Flumdiddle, but/ We don't know where it is"), this time accompanied by titled tin pans, AWOL toy soldiers, and that masterly comic creation The Hen With...
...also keeps him busy. Even so, the lover has enough libido left for a chic chick (Jean Seberg), and for several reels the tandem romance rackets merrily along. Neither mistress knows he has the other; he on the other hand is blithely unaware that both attend the same hen parties...
Author White has a fine, sweaty flair for physical detail: "The foreman stood there twiddling the hairs of his left armpit and breathing through his mouth." He has a grand ear for gossip: "I never take nothing substantial of an evening," clucks one old hen to another. "My stomach would create on retiring." And, above all, he has felicity and precision in his use of word and image: "Though her words were dead," he says of a social lioness, "the shape and colour of their sentiments were irreproachable, like those green hydrangeas of the last phase, less a flower than...
...seems to have changed very little since he was one of my PT-boat commanders in the Pacific war. He was a good one, too-a brave and resourceful young naval officer. But, judging from the luncheon he served me today [pièce de résistance: Cornish hen; dessert: omelette surprise]," added MacArthur, "he is living somewhat higher...