Word: mellows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Owlish Cellist Pablo Casals, 81, ventured a hopeful thought on a species of U.S.-bred cacophony scarcely ever ventured on his mellow instrument: "Rock 'n' roll is a disease that shall pass away as quickly as it was created. It is a sad thing for your country. It is nothing, nothing...
Summoning up remembrance of gay things past, officials of the mellow (founded in 1768) London publishing firm of John Murray, Ltd., unlocked for a TIME reporter a keepsake secured from a best-selling client of long ago, the amorous, glamorous 19th century poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. Inside a musty tin box were dozens of tiny parchment packages, each inscribed with the name and date of a comely comrade, each containing a specimen of the lady's locks. Handsomest of the hairlooms was a lustrous, 2½ ft. pony tail, still scented with the aroma of pomade, which...
...shown on TV until after his death. But last week, as a result of some "fast talking" by his interviewer (and old friend) Francis Williams, Lord Attlee agreed to a 45-minute version to be shown over the BBC on his 76th birthday. Among his tart but mellow observations on the men he has known...
...funny costumes and superimposing various new identities on the one with which they started; why real characters keep getting mistaken for ghosts, and vice-versa; and why it is sometimes hard to determine where anybody is at. Evidently Mr. Moss has an eye toward being some sort of mellow Pirandello, but though he uses all the standard reality-illusion devices, it is hard to tell what he is trying to do with them. It is not enough for a playwright merely to discusss "reality and illusion"; he ought at least to appear to have something to say about them...
...most efficient offices they could get, and Gordon Bunshaft, design partner of famed Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, produced a high-efficiency aluminum, glass and steel building, set squarely behind its own private reflecting pool five miles north of downtown Richmond, citadel of the Old Dominion's fanciers of mellow brick, white porticoes and neo-Monticello atmosphere. Reynolds expected furious protests from wave on wave of outraged Virginians. Instead, the distinguished director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Leslie Cheek Jr., told them that whether they knew it or not, their new building was the finest bit of architecture...