Word: idol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Louis' nephew, Francois "Le Grand," was represented by one of his most talked about but least performed compositions. It is a miniature musical drama, depicting the deification of Couperin's idol, Jean Baptiste Lully. This is program music at its most imaginative. Each of the twelve sections has an elaborate title (such as Lully in the Elysian Fields, Concertizing with the Lyric Shades) and the musical portraits are nothing short of amazing. In Subterranean Commotion Made by the Contemporary Authors of Lully, the string of the chamber orchestra make rumbling noises by means of a quasi-tremulo. In a violin...
Crooner Tony Bennett, 25, is the latest idol of the bobby-sox set; in Manhattan's Paramount Theater last week, Tony's tune-punching had the girls squealing and curling their toes in their saddle shoes. Bennett accepted the acclaim (and $4,000 a week), though he protested the while that he would really rather be doing something else...
...fight, his left eye clamped tight, his right slashed, his lips swollen and his body a patchwork of welts, Golden Boy was a slightly tarnished matinee idol. Carter had also taken a beating: a cut over his eye took seven stitches, and may keep him out of action for a year. The $32,000 purse, most lucrative of his obscure career, would help heal the wound. But more important to Jimmy Carter was his title. In his first defense of it, he had come through like a real champion...
...Susie, the 360-lb. giant panda which had been the idol of zoo-going New York moppets, died of causes unknown at the Bronx Zoo, Susie's home for ten of her eleven years, leaving only two of her species (at Chicago and St. Louis) in captivity. Susie will be hard to replace; giant pandas live in western Szechwan in Red China...
...looks and acts rather like a smaller replica of his idol, Diego Rivera. He has the same froggish frame and features, a similar instinct for gregarious, bohemian living. In his pockets, he usually carries a pen, pencils, paintbrushes, adhesive tape, wadded-up notes, neckties, socks, toothpaste and a list of telephone numbers. Thus equipped, he is ready to go anywhere and have a fine time (he once said: "I was born to go traveling around the world on an ostrich, but that could only be done in the 19th Century, when men had imagination and women's arms were...