Word: lilacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lilac for Liszt. Eileen gave her audience of prosperous, dressed-up miners the works. She recalled her father's rebuke when she returned from Europe once before, full of Beethoven concertos. When she was unable to play his favorite Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms, he had muttered "All your schoolin's bin wasted." This time, in Boulder's city hall, she gave them, among other things, Liebestraum, the "Moonlight...
Sonata and Chopin waltzes. As usual, she put on a good show by changing dresses three times (lilac for Liszt, black for Bach, green for Chopin). Her encore, Home, Sweet Home, had them stamping their feet...
...Ottawa, strawberry plants bloomed and lilac bushes burst their buds. In Winnipeg, it was pussy willows. As Torontonians curiously watched their city experiment with a new machine that sucks fallen leaves from gutters like a vacuum cleaner, newspapers reported that Oct. 20 was the hottest in history. The high of 76° topped the 1884 record by a full five degrees...
...comparison, the character of Beaumarchais remains a paper doll. So do most of Feuchtwanger's supporting players: the pretty Hapsburg queen, Marie Antoinette, with her "Lilac Coterie" of expensive courtiers; the fat and timorous king, who hated rebels on principle; and various noblemen, courtesans, and intriguers of Versailles. The dying Voltaire comes up from Ferney to see his play, Irene, and to give Feuchtwanger a crack...
...drab birds on the base of Prinz Eugen's statue and little Russian boys in dark blue school uniforms fire slingshots at passersby. When Vienna's bluish-green dusk settles over the square and forms a backdrop for the lighted clock in the Rathaus tower, and the lilac smells especially sweet, a few moments of real peace descend. Then the Russians turn on their loudspeakers, which blare hit tunes...