Word: pattered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...storm of inventiveness, and Gerhard, 67, proved himself to be a resourceful composer. Violin bows drawn across cymbals' edges make their pale, tortured protest as they create an eerie, shimmering climate of fear. A nail file raked across piano strings evokes wind against telegraph wires. The murmur and patter of the rats in the streets is sounded by cellists tapping clamped strings...
...somber ceremony witnessed by Brother Ted, 31, and Sister Jean, 35, New York International Airport (Idlewild) was officially rededicated as John F. Kennedy International Airport. There were a few brief speeches and a patter of applause as the 3-ft.-high J.F.K. initials were unveiled prior to being installed atop the International Arrivals Building. It was a "fitting memorial," allowed former President Harry Truman, 79, two days later. But even so, continued H.S.T., Americans in their grief are in too much of a hurry to rename everything, "including the pups and cats. After things settle down...
...alone. Entrepreneur Cohn also bought a swimming pool company, invested in a New York City bus line, a small loan company, a national travel agency, helped form syndicates that promoted two Patterson-Johansson heavyweight championship boxing matches in 1960 and 1961, and last year's Patter-son-Liston fight...
...Bottle, by Ved Mehta. A report from the high ivory tower occupied by Oxbridge philosophers and historians. The thin air is filled out by the author's gossipy patter and sure sense of extravagant anecdote about eccentric dons...
...with the evening. Looking for all the world like a rabid gnome, Margie Hertz in the part of Mad Margaret, the village looney, almost stole the show. It was a joy to watch the diminutive Miss Hertz sprinting purposefully through a forest of knees in the second act patter trio. With a lovely soprano voice and superb comic timing Kathleen Campbell played a village beauty, Rose Maybud-"sweet Rose Maybud," as she often reminds us. Demurely and discreetly, she was a girl on the Victorian make. Her turn came in the second act's "Tight Little Craft" sequence when, with...