Word: kittens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Debussy, Grieg, Liszt, Rachmaninoff. And if the day should ever come when he exhausts both the old and the new repertories, he sees an almost endless future in recording. Under the name "Guy Sherwood," for instance, he appears in a radio series on which he plays numbers such as Kitten on the Keys, for which he has deftly recorded first the left-hand part, then the right-hand part (played with the left hand). When the whole thing is glued together, De Groot sounds like his old two-handed self playing like sixty...
...TIME'S cover three times before. This is his fourth appearance-a rare record for a nonpolitical personage. Even this appearance goes back to his Harvard days. For Conant's fascination with public schools began in 1933, when he had to decide "whether to drown a kitten," meaning Harvard's ailing Graduate School of Education. Conant fed it instead and raised it to be one of the nation's best. What evolved was a rare understanding of public schools, capped by this year's bestselling The American High School Today...
...doomed from the first to failure by Author Sitwell's indifference to the search, the hero finds himself back home. Was he really on a Cook's Tour of many possible purgatories, or was it all a dream? Apparently it was no dream. When Sitwell sees a kitten, the animal will have nothing to do with him, it arches its back and its tail goes up straight, for "I have been down among dead men and the cat knows it." Sitwell's final guess is typical: "As with human beings, so with all creatures, their...
...verge of tears or curl with three-martini irony; her blue eyes can blink in puppy-dog innocence or wink in complicity with all the world. Perhaps her most typical expression is that of a pixy hooked on happy pills, but she can also look like a small kitten that has just swallowed a very large canary, a waif who has lost her bus ticket home, a country girl trying to act like a vamp despite her wholesome apple cheeks...
...m.p.h., Britain's Princess Margaret and France's Cinemorsel Brigitte (Girl in the Bikini) Bardot, halted briefly at a traffic light, stared curiously at each other through the cars' side windows. When they raced onward, the royal limousine took a commanding lead. Purred Sex Kitten Bardot, who first met the princess at a command film performance two years ago: "I don't know if she knew me, but she looked at me very hard...