Word: rustication
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...music world will not let him. At 34, Bream is in demand throughout Europe and America as the undisputed successor to the grand master of the classical guitar, Andres Segovia, and as a lutanist already beyond comparison. Without sacrificing stylistic elegance, he draws from both instruments the rustic grace and fresh-air feeling of the English countryside, redeeming them from sentimentality as well as musicological pedantry. To make up for the narrow dynamic range of the guitar, he achieves dramatic effects with an extraordinary variety of tonal colors. Subtle, jazzlike rhythms, throbbing chords, silvery lines, harplike plinks, resonant harpsichord...
Nervous Cat. Nabors is both a representative and a caricature of the noble American rustic. As Gomer, a leatherneck Pfc, he wears a gee-whiz expression, spouts homilies out of a lopsided mouth and lopes around uncertainly like a plowboy stepping through a field of cow dung. He is a walking disaster area. When his drill sergeant chastises him for "taking the taxpayer's money without putting in a day's work," the hapless recruit returns part of his paycheck-and fouls up the bookkeeping system of the entire Marine Corps. Yet in the end, Gomer...
Architect Gordon Bunshaft and his wife Nina began collecting in the early '50s. They have only four treasured works displayed on the rustic grounds of their summer place on Long Island, but each one gains a new dimension be side the woods and water. Indeed, Giacometti's worn but stately woman seems plainly made to stroll among the maples in the moonlight. Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley, widow of the Milwaukee indus trialist, missed Gerhard Marcks's Bremen Town Musicians so much after she lent it to the Milwaukee Art Center that she took it back again, keeps...
Existing gambling laws are a mass of contradictions. While banning most forms of gambling 29 states permit horse racing-but not off-track betting. Some states forbid betting on flat racing, which is presumably wicked, but allow betting on harness races-which are presumably a wholesome, rustic diversion. The California legislature puts on its best poker face and allows betting in draw-poker parlors because it is a "game of skill." In Virginia, the statutes spell out that b-i-n-g-o is forbidden. So the churches and fire stations spell it beano, or bungo, or lotto...
...Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, by all odds the world's finest lieder singer, who was to perform in the barn during the Touraine Festival in central France. It was also an act of self-effacement by Fischer-Dieskau's accompanist, Soviet Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, who has made the rustic, four-year-old festival his own showcase...