Word: music
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much of her life, 45-year-old Virginia Pleasants, an Ohio-born graduate of the Cincinnati College of Music, was a modest and unassuming concert pianist. Her careful, reflective playing of 18th century music was well received in Europe, but Pianist Pleasants' lack of temperament and color made her unsuited to the more popular romantics. Then her husband played a hunch. Henry Pleasants, onetime music critic for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and since 1952 a Foreign Service officer in Austria and Germany, thought that Virginia's real forte might be the harpsichord, which lacks dynamic range (it sounds...
Then a greying, grandmotherly woman wearing dancing slippers put a Strauss waltz on the phonograph and went to work. As always, the goal for Marian Chace, 62, the nation's leading dance therapist, was to make contact with the mentally ill, through music and movement...
...Beat Me Up." She started slowly, encouraging her patients to make hand movements in time to the music. To help them work off hostility, she put on a polka and danced from man to man, staging mock punching battles to the bouncing beat. "You can really beat me up," she cried breathlessly. "Yes, I can feel anger too!" After half an hour, everyone was trying to dance, even the tremulous man who could do little but rub his hands together. The session ended with a slow waltz that lulled the patients with a soothing, cradling motion...
...with a Camera, a freelance photographer's adventures, was a flop from the start, will also disappear next month. Behind Closed Doors, a cloak-and-daguerreotype, is almost sure to follow. Even laughter is losing out in a dreary season: by May, Uncle Miltie Berle and the Kraft Music Hall part company as planned. George Burns, George Gobel. Ed Wynn, Jackie Gleason will be gone...
...ages 3½, 2½, and ½ raise continual riot. A yellow parrot named Jethroe screeches, whistles and squawks "There's a girl" whenever Mamma glides past in skintight velvet pants. A hefty brother-in-law lounges around listening to a recording of rock 'n' roll music that he composes himself. Through it all, Johnny Cash, head of the household, relaxes in pointy Italian-leather loafers, and practices a fast draw with his Colt...