Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read my name in the list of train devotees while flying over the Atlantic Ocean. As principal conductor of both the London Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Symphony Orchestra, I make a minimum of four trips a year to Europe and back. By now I fly happily, read, work and even occasionally look at the movie, although that tends to work more as a soporific than a stimulant. My train travel is restricted nowadays to a ten-minute trip around the Houston Zoo on the kids' railroad...
...intellectuals and artists attending Kosterin's funeral, he was the very symbol of uncompromising Leninism that was crushed mercilessly in Stalin's era-and is now imperiled again. Some brought wreaths bearing ribbons that read, "For his fight against Stalinism" and "From his comrades and friends in the prisons and camps." Grigorenko, an engineer whose libertarian views cost him his army rank in 1964, urged the mourners to work for "the persistent development of genuine Leninist democracy," and scathingly dismissed the current "totalitarianism that hides behind the mask of so-called Soviet democracy" as its antithesis...
...curious can see from Gallup's notes that in the much quoted line, "These fragments I have shored against my ruin," the words "shored against" originally read "spelt into." This was probably Eliot's own emendation, but other alterations are clearly the work of the man who looked over the master's shoulder. "Dogaral" (doggerel), noted Ezra on one passage, and Eliot humbly struck the offending words from his text. But Eliot sometimes balked. Ezra had condemned Eliot's description of a nightingale's "inviolable voice" as "too purty" (pretty), but Eliot seems to have...
Blunden's revival technique in this historical novel is remarkably restrained. Even when dealing with the ship's celebrated Captain James Cook, he has refused all concession to the popular taste for heightening drama and homogenizing history. As a consequence, the book may be read only by Blunden's fellow countrymen in Australia-a land so new and short on history that its people tend to brood protectively over what little they have-or by students interested in Cook's voyages. But this would be a pity. Dry and slow as the book often is, Blunden...
...TAKE OFF your shoes and socks and leave them in the hall," the sign read. Inside, in the assembly hall of the Christ Church parish house, a tall man with gray hair was blowing up an enormous white balloon--at least six feet in diameter--with an air pump. His name was Ted Moynihan, and he wore black leotards...