Word: idyll
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...back out of , whack doing a tango and, after trying to keep on for two more days, finally stopped because of the pain. Daddy threatened to fire him if he ever started up again. Last week John was gloomily attempting to clear away the debris of his terpsichorean idyl...
...first work was Notturno, by Austria-born Ernst Toch, who now lives in California. It turned out to be a modest idyl that the 66-year-old composer describes as "visions of the night." Its strings and woodwinds sang sweetly, the orchestra played it well, and the small (about 200) crowd thought it was a fitting beginner for the series...
Actress Gardner, cast as a sort of one-girl Friendship Club, arrives at Gable's African animal farm to keep a date with a maharaja. When she finds that her potentate has gone back to the Punjab, Ava companionably moves in with Gable, only to have her idyl interrupted by the arrival of a British anthropologist (Donald Sinden) and his aristocratic, susceptible wife (Grace Kelly). On safari, the camera keeps one travelogue eye on natives, chest-thumping gorillas and the lush African landscape, but concentrates mainly on a heavy-breathing triangle involving Ava, Gable and Grace. After 116 minutes...
...Francisco and Pierre Monteux have both been enjoying. In 17 years as conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, Monteux's teddy-bear figure and walrus mustache have become as well known and beloved by San Franciscans as their ferry boats and cable cars. Last week, as the idyl came to an end, San Francisco took a dab at its eyes...
...idyl was interrupted for a while in 1944. At 53, ex-Soldier Dix was drafted into the Volkssturm for the last-ditch defense of the Reich. But his World War II service was brief and painless. "I was with my squad of ten other men near a little town on the Rhine. We were posted in a field. It was a warm spring afternoon. We all lay down in the grass and went to sleep The next thing we knew, there were some French African troops standing over us with machine guns in their hands. We just did what they...