Word: moonlighters
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...cheng, the hsiao ('vertical flute), and the nan-hu (violin). The wiry melodic lines, wavering and falling away, have the delicate but hypnotic fascination of ancient Chinese watercolors, and the songs have subjects to match: Wild Geese Alighting on the Sandy Shore, The Spring River in the Flowery Moonlight...
...Over?" His appointment list was crammed. The President was very available, from breakfast sessions with the Democratic leaders of Congress to moonlight meetings with the airline strike fact-finding commission. He was especially attentive to Congressmen, many of whom were dazzled by the ardent courtship. When Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg hurried to the Oval Room with the airlines' strike settlement in his dispatch case (see BUSINESS), Kennedy greeted him with a broad grin and a question: "Is it over?" By personally announcing that it was, he signaled that he intends to wade deep into national labor controversies...
...reviling the comatose Stalin as a monster on his deathbed and then dropping to his knees in slobbering sycophancy as the unconscious dictator raises an arm in eerily imperious command. Most striking photographs: the corps de ballet of the Bolshoi company dancing Swan Lake as if in shimmering blue moonlight; a row of Leningrad citizens in bathing suits, queuing up for a bit of winter sunshine...
Abiding Impact. Still to come were many, many things: a moonlight stroll through the parks of the Taj Mahal, lunch at the lovely Lake Palace in Udaipur, a visit to the burning ghats of Benares. Then, this week, on to Pakistan, supper with the Wali of Swat, a drive up to the fabled Khyber Pass...
...have been tormented with the desire for possession," wrote a languishing millionaire in 1921. "I am still in the position of a young man sitting on the rocks on a fine moonlight night in summer, holding the hand of a pretty girl and having a great desire to kiss her, but dare not do so." The passionate metaphorist. Frank Bemis, merely wanted to buy a particularly fine First Folio Shakespeare (he finally did, for $30,000), and his was the kind of passion only one bookseller could inspire...