Word: samplers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lighting and composition now join the themes to establish the mountain-peak as a place of purity and to contrast it with the lower world. A sampler in the officer's bedroom reads, "In the Alps there is no sin." Though he takes it to mean "all is permitted," its meaning is that sin will be obliterated. As the officer and husband begin the ascent, a guide tells the wife they will be safe, if they only will eave their worldly attachments behind...
...second week of his second life by eating steak and eggs, his favorite dish. He took his first hesitant steps, a few yards from his bed to an armchair on a sunny balcony, badgered his wife to bring the family for a visit, and nicknamed the daily blood sampler "Old Dracula." Every other day he got a dose of cobalt-60 radiation that his doctors had or dered in hopes of controlling the expected-indeed, inevitable-attempt by his system to reject the "foreign" heart muscle in his chest. Even so, he was doing so famously in the early part...
...WORLD OF CHARLES IVES (Columbia). As a boy, Ives heard two town bands approach from different directions and march past each other, tooting different tunes full-force. The folksy spirit of band music, combined with the thorny complexities of conflicting voices and rhythms, characterizes his work in this excellent sampler. Eugene Ormandy conducts Three Places in New England; Leonard Bernstein, Washington's Birthday; and Leopold Stokowski, the longest piece, The Robert Browning Overture...
Some of the most worthwhile theater this summer will be presented by resident companies that are giving actors and directors an opportunity to exercise their crafts within a repertory framework before local audiences. A sampler of the groups performing this summer...
Great U.S. constitutional decisions come down from the Supreme Court like Mosaic tablets-but the common law and administrative rules that affect everyone are created by hundreds of lesser courts and agencies in thousands of obscure human conflicts. A current sampler...