Word: saltless
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...while poking about the musical archives of London's British Museum, he happened to come across manuscripts of a 17th-Century English music for viols. Violinist Dolmetsch had heard 17th-Century scores revived by modern musicians on modern instruments, and, like many, had found the results flat as saltless soup. But as he studied the old scores, he began to see that they contained subtleties that could not be translated into present-day musical terms. Other old English scores confirmed his idea. Fired with enthusiasm, he began to collect viols, lutes, virginals and other old instruments, studied their construction...
...money he had) for newspapers, had taken to playing checkers with fellow inmates, had dropped his depressed air. "But the more natural I acted," he said, "the wackier they thought I was." At the end of ten days, Patient Carlin was losing sleep, losing his appetite for the drab, saltless food, and began to realize that his surroundings were having no good effect on him. As a voluntary patient he petitioned for release, saying he felt much better. Rockland's officials told him that he was an incipient dementia praecox victim, warned him to withdraw his petition, threatened...
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