Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernstein starts at the parlor game level, trying to find analogies between language and music. First he tries matching up sounds with tones, words with musical phrases, and so on. "I believe it's no accident that the German word satz means both sentence and symphonic movement." This seems a bit simplistic, though, so he tries again with parts of speech, equating nouns with motifs and adjectives with their harmonic underpinnings--Wagner's Fate motif played over a diminished chord could mean something like "cruel fate." Verbs naturally correspond to rhythm, so Bernstein adds some triple meter at the piano...
...Paris' 16th arrondissement have been buzzing with gossip about the private life of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Ever since the Paris daily Le Monde noted his penchant for mysterious nighttime disappearances from the Elysée Palace (TIME, Dec. 9), a favorite Paris parlor game has been to guess where, how arid with whom the President spends his evenings. Palace officials insist that Giscard's nocturnal wanderings involve nothing more adventurous than dropping in on old friends for a drink and a chat. They contend that his yearning to escape the pressures...
Ford held his Thursday press conference at the downtown ice cream parlor, the "unofficial town hall" of Searsport, Hollander said. "It's the best thing that ever happened to Searsport," one citizen said...
...focusing on men and larger societal needs, Gilder ignores the rising cry of women for self-fulfillment outside the home. He pads the book with trivial anecdotes, like his chapter on the unfeeling treatment of two lonely Harvard professors at a Los Angeles massage parlor. In his insistence that bachelorhood causes trouble and lower earnings, he considers but rejects an equally persuasive explanation of his statistics: that poor and troubled men may be fated to remain single. He tends to see every social ill as a sexual ill in disguise, suggesting, for example, that "one way to explain black poverty...
...appeal of this contumelious parlor rat race, Author Brady suggests, is that it permits respectable citizens to cheat and browbeat with impunity as they seek to amass paper fortunes and drive other contestants into bankruptcy. "It is a game," in one buffs words, "in which everyone loves to hate his neighbor." The Monopoly Book, however, gives the player more of a chance to rely on intellect than odium. Starting from the beginning, when each player has an issue of $1,500 in scrip, Brady gives advice on which property group to buy and develop, how many buildings...