Word: pillowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kalervo Kallio started playing with puukoilla (Finnish for knives) while he was still in short pants. "What old men can whittle I could whittle before I was ten," he says. "I loved my puukko so much that when I went to bed I'd put it under my pillow and pray I would some day have the sharpest knife in the world...
...student porters work in a few selected dorms. They make beds only on that one day a week when the linen is changed. Tech supplies the students with sheets, pillow-cases, and towels. On other days, room occupants make their own beds while the porters dust and empty wastebaskets...
...Henri Matisse's charcoal Seated Nude in a chair was a smudgy, uncertain study with none of Rouault's power. The viewer could barely tell the flesh from the upholstery, and the girl looked as impersonal as a pillow. But all that had been part of the artist's intention. By smudging out instead of neatly erasing his first hesitant strokes, he gave the picture a hot-off-the-easel look that it would otherwise have lacked. By sticking to foggy greys and muffling the girl's personality in the armchair's embrace, he reduced...
...piano rehearsals and one with orchestra. He was not worried about his own role of Tristan-although he had found Wagnerian themes "strange for the Latin ear." He had helped himself to memorize his role by sleeping with the speaker of a cerebrograph (automatic record player) under his pillow to embed the music in his subconscious. But, not knowing German itself, he expected to have a dreadful time following the other singers and catching his cues. Flagstad ("She was always there prompting me or giving me a signal with her eyes") took care of that...
Last week Sidney Frame led his 100th black sheep back into the army fold. Many of those who had gone before had written to thank him. Said one: "Thank God, I can now put my head on a pillow at night and go to sleep...