Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frayed strings so that when one snapped he could display his virtuosity on three. But times have changed. Last week, in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, one of the world's great violinists walked to the center of the stage, took measure of the audience for a long, silent minute, nodded to his accompanist and swept into Beethoven's Sonata in C Minor with all the flamboyance of a stockbroker stepping...
After her losing joust with Kennedy. Reporter McClendon fell unnaturally silent-inspired, perhaps, by word from State Department Legal Adviser Abram Chayes, who said that her statement to Kennedy was "defamatory on its face." Besides, what was the point in more talk...
Though he admits to being only a noodler himself, Simonton never lacks for live music. Famed Theater Organist Jesse Crawford-"the Poet of the Organ"-comes over to practice on the Wurlitzer three days a week. And when Simonton reels off a silent flicker in his basement Bijou, he always has on hand an oldtime organist to accompany the picture with the requisite mysteriosos and agitatos...
...talking about animals, as he is most of the time in this record of a recent expedition to the plains of Patagonia, his book is fresh, shrewd and informative. Sometimes his observations are merely amusing: "A pygmy owl with round yellow eyes that glared at me with all the silent indignation of a vicar who, in the middle of the service, has discovered that the organist is drunk." At Durrell's best, they are more; in his description, for instance, of the stoic heroism of foraging penguins, he fills the reader with his own great love for the world...
LOVE AND BE SILENT, by Curfis Harnock (246 pp.; Harcourt, Brace & World; $4.50). Strangers may think that Kaleburg, Iowa, is just a "Siberian collection of buildings," but to Farmer Robert Schneider it means pie and coffee at the Kaleburg Kafé, dances at the Cornflower Ballroom, high old times in Buzzy Burns's tavern, with its row of convenient cabins out back. His wife Donna is both high-spirited and indecisive, but he settles her down with a tumbling succession of babies. His spinster sister Alma proves more difficult. She falls in love with soft-spoken Roger Larkin...