Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carnegie Hall audience greeted the piano concerto warmly. But bowing and beaming, Composer Casadesus had more on his mind than the applause. He had a half-finished cello concerto waiting for him at home. Said he backstage: "I know I will compose tonight. I never rest. I am always in the fire...
Raphael reaches his Broadway studio by subway at 9 each morning, bringing with him, stored in his mind, some of the life of Manhattan's streets and of the lonely apartments high above the streets. By the time he catches the uptown subway to return to his wife and daughter at 5:30, the chances are that a little of that same disordered life has been transferred to canvas. "My work is factual," says Soyer. "So much art that's exhibited nowadays has nothing to do with life. I go to see the new painters. I know what...
...rode the horsecars, peeked into Parliament and sat twirling his thumbs through the drone and drama of courtroom trials. He was looking for pictures. But he never brought paper or pencil, because Daumier found it impossible to draw what he saw. Like a photographic film, his mind absorbed pictures, and at night he would develop those mental images in furious and funny lithographs composed with an actor's flair for gesture and a sculptor's knowledge of form...
...used to). But Scottish Psychiatrist James L. Halliday, who took a long look, disagrees. A psychosomatic (mindbody) medicine man, he has come forth with a diagnosis that might not surprise Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr or Historian Arnold J. Toynbee: modern society is a very sick patient. The disease: an ailing mind. Dr. Halliday's findings are published this week in Psychosocial Medicine: A Study of the Sick Society (Norton...
...Victoria; first cousin once removed of George VI ; after long illness ; in London. A bright court figure in her youth, she helped hasten the change from the conservative Victorian to the gay Edwardian era by sporting colorful clothes, dancing the latest steps, taking in dog races and speaking her mind frankly in public...