Word: musee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wellington's ball on the eve of Waterloo. Singers Judy Abbott and Glenn Weston chanted as indefatigably as blackbirds on a spring morn. Bands and discotheques rocked away with Elizabethan abandon. And many young couples were seen to be popping below quite early, leading one ancient mariner to muse that the cruise might be fruitful beyond Cunard's calculations. The great drift-in's only real disaster, said New Bedford, Mass., Travel Agent Bob Penler, occurred "when...
Well, Byrd was thrust into the starting position this season after graduation had claimed Eliot, Kevin Hampe and Bob Muse. Only Mark Noonan returned with varsity experience. To the surprise of many, Byrd fit in well. After overcoming the mistakes that come with lack of experience, he has become a very solid defenseman...
Appealing Melodies. Rachmaninoff's composing style, like his playing, was undeniably showy at times. Further, the substance unquestionably fell short of great music. Rachmaninoff s muse simply did not have the requisite universality; try as he might, and he did try, he could not transcend for long the monochromatic lugubriousness of his emotional palette. Yet his sound is so distinctive, his melodies are so appealing, his orchestrations so skillful, that Rachmaninoff's music simply will not go away, despite the condescension of academia and the critics. He may not have written music "of his own time" (assuming serialism...
...about the Emperor of China-and, decking it with foamy light and gamboling bodies as firm as little pink quails, create from it a microcosm of civility and pleasure. The Allegory of Music (1764) became for Boucher an occasion to gently eroticize the myth; the nuptial flutters of the muse's doves are clearly of more interest than the musical score behind them...
...muse works the early shift. Osgood leaves his apartment on Manhattan's West Side at 4 a.m., scours the papers and incoming stories at his CBS office for material that he can use that morning. When he shakes loose to do one of his rare TV pieces, it is in the same whimsical vein. Recently he went to Lansdale, Pa., to find out why pupils in one class had been told to collect 1,000,000 bottle caps. The idea, it turned out, was to give the children some tangible feel for huge numbers. Osgood's interviews with...