Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...edge of a big easy chair, munching a cracker and talking to a circle of followers. In the opposite corner sprawled Anthony Eden, expounding his viewpoint to his own group of disciples. Both had to shout to be heard above the squeaky strains of a teatime violin, piano and cello...
...moved to Manhattan and took it by storm in 1917 with an exhibition of a totally different kind: a roomful of carved comments on modern life. Now Nadelman's slimmed-down Venuses did high kicks, his Jupiters wore boiled shirts and derby hats, his Muses played the piano. Critic Henry McBride described the show as "culture to the breaking point." It all but sold...
...take a scholarship at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, Florence Iva Begay, a Navaho girl, had gotten the Jim Crow treatment in a bus near Amarillo, Tex. Shocked and scared, she went back to the reservation (TIME, Oct. 11). Last week, as she was playing the piano for a service in a little Protestant church in Flagstaff, Ariz., an invitation arrived. How would she like to fly to the big Tri-State Fair at Amarillo, with all expenses paid? Amarillo wanted to "open its collective arms and heart" to Florence, so that she would forget her last memory...
...florins a night (about $230)-twice as much as any other conductor. Nightly, he was seen at cafés-a, scowling giant (6 ft. 6 in.) who shouted at waiters, flirted with young women, or just sat in a corner, thumping out jazz on the café piano...
...stage fright, he had a good deal of trouble with his clothes: buttons popped, belts burst, seams split. And for years he was tortured by a recurrent nightmare-that the orchestra would begin while he was still dressing for the concert. In the dream, he never got to the piano in time...