Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorite diversion. As for her fiancé, the Imperial Highness, his only known opinions are on Western music. When his proud mother asks him to "play some thing for us," he rises promptly and-in a parody of any child who takes music lessons -marches over to the phonograph...
...Bingham's wife Maureen collapsed sobbing on the courtroom floor. Later British television viewers saw her talking at length with reporters in the Binghams' $30,000 home, surrounded by the sort of luxuries that had put the family $5,000 in debt-elegant red leather furniture, stereo phonograph, color television set. She claimed that she was the guilty party. "I nagged him into becoming a spy," said Maureen, who found it extremely expensive to try keeping up with the navy's social whirl. At the same time, however, she boasted that her husband had taken the Russians...
...California." This is the room where he met with Henry Kissinger to plan the China trip. Occasionally he smokes a pipe or a cigar here. There is a fireplace he likes to have kept burning and high-fidelity speakers on either side of the grate. His tapes, cartridges and phonograph are in a large walk-in closet near the door to the sitting room. He prefers melodious classics: Van Cliburn playing Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff; the theme music from Doctor Zhivago and Victory...
...into this, having nothing better to do with my time." A character in another story, "Homage to the San Francisco YMCA," liked good verse. "One day he decided that his liking for poetry could not be fully expressed in just reading poetry or listening to poets reading on phonograph records. He decided to take the plumbing out of his house and completely replace it with poetry, and so he did." The poetry of John Donne replaced the pipes, Shakespeare the bathtub and Emily Dickinson the kitchen sink. The minor poets replaced the toilet. Then the lover of good verse...
There are still moments of piercing sadness. Such as when one of Beverly's recordings is on the phonograph, and Muffy puts her fingertips to the speaker to "feel" the sound. Or when Beverly grows uncharacteristically abstracted, her voice trailing off, the brightness fading from her face. Then, as those around her know, she is probably thinking ahead to one of the monthly visits she and Peter make to Bucky (whenever she travels she wears two ring watches, one set to local time, the other to eastern time, so that she can think what Bucky is doing at any given...