Word: hermit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Schoenberg in Vienna and Berlin, but he decided to go to England and settled at Cambridge, turning down teaching offers in favor of life as a freelance composer. "Teaching would have been safety-first," he says, "a sign of lack of confidence to survive." Instead, he adopted a hermit's quiet and began turning out a blizzard of atonal music. The Symphony No. 1, composed in 1953, was not played publicly in England until last February, but it has already made Gerhard a major English succès d'estime...
Died. Michel de Ghelderode (real name: Aldemar Martens). 63, noted Belgian playwright whose darkling dramas on medieval Flemish themes (best known: Splendors of Hell, Pantagleize) foreshadowed today's "theater of the absurd," a wizened hermit who rarely left the "dream'' room where he wrote surrounded by sepulchral puppets dressed up as characters from his plays; of asthma; in Brussels...
Juncos & Jaegers. In San Francisco, a seventh-grader named Arthur Wang found a stray Slate-Colored Junco (rarely seen west of the Sierras), while elsewhere in the bay area his colleagues registered the Eastern Phoebe, the Pomarine Jaeger, the Hermit Warbler and the Saw-Whet Owl. From Oahu, Hawaii, a dedicated birder named Grenville Hatch reported sightings by her group of 500 Red-Footed Boobies, 452 Frigate-Birds, 433 Arctic Golden Plovers and one Long-Billed Dowitcher...
...Rose Garland. The popularity of the rosary is growing in the modern world, along with increased devotion to the Virgin Mary. The use of prayer beads recedes into the earliest years of Christianity. In the 4th century, Paul the Hermit tallied his 300 prayers a day by collecting 300 pebbles and discarding them one at a time. In the 11th century, Countess Godiva of Coventry, the celebrated ecdysiast, bequeathed to a certain statue of the Virgin Mary "the circlet of precious stones which she had threaded on a cord in order that by fingering them one after another she might...
Abused to Abusive. When iron-fisted ex-Newspaperman Syngman Rhee was deposed from the presidency last year, the newspapers were given more freedom than they had ever enjoyed in the history of the Hermit Kingdom. They promptly ran wild. Themselves abused in the past, they suddenly became outrageously abusive. New publications and agencies proliferated; at one time there were 128 dailies and 311 news agencies, many run by shady operators who never published a single issue but used them as fronts for smuggling operations, black-marketeering or blackmail. Reporters, paid $30 to $40 a month, were ordered to exhume scandals...