Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into La Grenouille, and Lyons is off to the Cote Basque: Hurok's come and gone, but there's Artur Rubinstein, who puffs a long Havana and says his wife cooked Polish chicken for an after-concert gathering the night before. Out comes Lyons' black lizardskin notebook and tiny gold pencil. A few cryptic notes, and he Ts off to Le Pavilion and, finally, the Four Seasons. The latter has a coat hook marked MR. LYONS. A coat, is already there. "Who's been hanging their coat on my hook?" In his consternation, Lyons...
...word to describe communication with Beethoven. Nor is eavesdropping. From the age of 45, he was totally deaf, and anyone who wanted to talk to him had to write out the message. For this purpose, Beethoven would obligingly pull a pencil and a rumpled 5-in. by 7-in. notebook out of his pocket and offer them to visitors. Because he usually replied orally, the conversation books are as one-sided as one half of a telephone call. Yet they make clear what Beethoven was thinking about, and where he occasionally wrote in the books himself-usually for a comment...
They will not, however, actually have to take an hour exam until late March or April, after another reading period of a week or more. Kennan, who has given the course several times previously under the normal structure, said he decide upon the experiment after finding a notebook of one of last year's students which indicated that the student had gone through the entire course without doing any of the reading...
...cooed God. "Lie-uh. sit back down. This little green notebook here...