Word: itched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Promoter. Serge Pavlovich Diaghilev had also once applied to Rimsky-Korsakov for advice, and, the story goes, was told to try some other line of work. Diaghilev was a rich young fellow with an itch to dabble in the arts. Vain and hot-tempered but a man of impeccable taste, he decided that if he couldn't be a great artist himself he could encourage and sponsor men who were. In Paris he put on a giant show of Russian art, a series of concerts of Russian music, and the first Parisian performance of Musorgsky's great opera...
...high-flying cheats, one of whom professes to be an alchemist, and of the brisk trade they drive. Dupes and sharpers alike are finally discomfited; but first the alchemist is sought out by every kind and condition of hopeful, from a modest lawyer's clerk who has an itch to gamble to the City knight, Sir Epicure Mammon, with his sumptuous and stupendous visions of sensuality...
Like Fellow Pianist Artur Schnabel and many another performer, Robert Casadesus has an itch to prove to the world that he can write as well as read music. "Since 15," says he, "I am composing all the time. Everywhere-on trains, airplanes, boats." He has written three symphonies, three concertos and about 35 other compositions. The new piano concerto, 20 minutes long, was written during two summers in the Berkshires, and has already been played by Casadesus in Minneapolis and St. Louis...
...company. Last November, Arthur Thexton asked his business friends a surprising question: What would they think of his going back to school? "I was afraid [they'd] think I was nuts or something," fays Thexton. But they didn't. Some of them even confessed to the same itch...
...itch for the book was most notable among urban intellectuals and college students. (Wellesley girls were told at the campus bookshop that they could not buy a copy unless they came back with a written O.K. from a professor. None came back.) But there were plenty of other customers. In Kansas City, a grain merchant bought a copy for his mistress, wistfully wrote on the flyleaf: "I hope this will help you to understand me better." In Miami Beach, where no cabana was considered properly furnished without "the report," one playboy bought 50 copies and sent them...