Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CONCERTO IN D MINOR; CHOPIN: CONCERTO NO. 2 IN F MINOR (London). Vladimir Ashkenazy's technical brilliance is enough by itself to rivet the listener's attention, but it is only one factor in a superb performance. He moves across the glittering surface of the Chopin like moonlight on a windswept lake, and gives the popular Bach concerto an almost hearty treatment that displays to perfection the gaiety in its baroque adornments...
Born in Ohio, Hocking took up philosophy at the age of 13, after a reading of Herbert Spencer shattered the Methodist faith he was born to. He taught for seven years at Yale before beginning a 29-year tenure on the Harvard faculty, retiring in 1943. He liked to moonlight from university teaching by lecturing at labor-union schools, because "workingmen don't pull their punches...
...surprised to see workmen behind them busily carting off the whole insides-seats, galley, cabin partitions-of their aircraft. In Seattle last week, United Air Lines showed off the plane that can do the strip: the 600-m.p.h. Boeing 727 QC (for Quick Change), first airliner designed to moonlight as a cargo plane after turning in a full day, and fat profits, as a passenger carrier...
...suburbs. It should have been a festival favorite too; instead it got soundly, roundly booed, possibly because Moreau overworks her villainy. The film is rife with animal butchery and exotic sexuality. Sniffed one critic: "Maybe we didn't know that licking the nose of a gentleman in the moonlight constituted eroticism . . . but did we really have to know...
...child's father, Kingdon, and earns the undying hatred of the mother, Catherine. Somebody has to die, and so Catherine gets clouted in the face with a sea shell and knocked down a treacherous embankment. After a lot of voodoo-dee-oo and slipping about in the tropical moonlight, Jessica comes through happily, and a sudden storm conveniently takes care of Catherine's slayer. Now then, what...