Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expansive, triumphal affirmation of the last movement but, in spite of mighty swells of sound, seems a little somnolent in the andante (where Von Karajan, on Deutsche Grammophon, creates a brooding tension). Bernstein has more overall success in the rich tone poem Pohjola's Daughter, about a maiden who sits high on a rainbow preferring, for some reason, to weave rather than be wooed...
...world changers and plain and assorted knuckleheads. Obviously Hersey has tuned his fine ear to the contemporary campus (he finished the book shortly before his appointment as master of Yale's Pierson College). His very funny student demonstration against majors in the curriculum (ABOLISH THE MAJOR: INTELLECTUAL IRON MAIDEN!) is straight out of today's headlines (TIME, Feb. 25), and his Professor Gutwillig is a marvelously pointed caricature of a preposterously ineffectual intellectual...
Industrious Mrs. Highet's first casual attempt at fiction, titled Above Suspicion and published under her maiden name, Helen MacInnes, became a runaway bestseller and a first-rate film. Since then, periodically and with unhurried ease, she has sat down with pencil and paper and turned out such bestselling yarns of international intrigue as Assignment in Brittany, North from Rome, Decision at Delphi and The Venetian Affair. All told, her twelve novels have sold more than 4,000,000 copies and have been translated into 19 languages. Five have been sold to the movies...
...addition to championing segregation, the two Jackson papers practice a boosterism that would make a Bab bitt blush. The Clarion-Ledger regularly runs a Page One color photo of a local maiden or matron gushing something like "It is patio time again." The Daily News runs a front-page cartoon of a donkey named Hinny who brays verse on behalf of some local cause: "It's the first night for football in the high schools of the state/ And ol' Hinny hopes each one'll win its game-won't that be great...
Sired by Ribot and foaled by Galbreath's stakes-winning mare Flower Bowl, Graustark was a big (16 hands), rangy colt bred for endurance rather than speed. But at Illinois' Arlington Park last summer, he showed all kinds of speed-winning a six-furlong maiden race by seven lengths, an allowance sprint by nine, the $54,600 Arch Ward Stakes by six. Then he bucked his shins and retired for the year. "Sometimes," sighed Galbreath, "these things work out for the best...