Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor news was serious. Melody, the Washington, D.C. mockingbird who for years has shown up to sit on a lamppost and chirp with the National Symphony Orchestra at Washington's Water Gate concerts, was at it again. Melody, says the Symphony's manager, prefers Mozart and Schubert, but last week he gave a notable and unadvertised rendition of the bird part in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. "He did not strike a single false note," said Washington Evening Star Critic Alice Eversman. "If he could only read the scores-" sighed one of the musicians. But trouble...
...pressure was off. For another six weeks now he would not have to hear a bullying proctor yell hoarsely, "Social Relations 12 sit in every other seat. Face this side of the room." And the terrifying, huge numbers on the blackboard, tersely announcing that he had seven minutes left for the last three questions. Which ones should he have taken out of the possible five? He agreed with all the statements in quotes; they all sounded reasonable, and he had put down a few odd facts he had learned in some history course last fall...
...looked after "the little things" long before the delegates arrived. Mayors without wives were paired up as roommates according to their habits (i.e., tipplers and late sleepers did not bunk with teetotalers and early risers). Banquet placecards were arranged so that French-speaking and English-speaking delegates did not sit next to one another. Arrangements were made for entertaining wives while delegates were at meetings. Jessica, who has been with the federation since it was founded in 1938, thinks the mayors are a "grand bunch"; she wanted everything to go smoothly...
They talk about the war and the world they live in until at Rosetta's suggestion they sit at a booth, where the dialogue becomes first a conscious and then a dream exploration of what they know or can remember of human life-the Seven Ages of Man, that end in senescence and death...
Right at the beginning, a sultry blonde appears in front of the chorus line. A little is seen of her then, and everyone begins to sit up, hoping for more. She has a hoarse voice and she is not much of an actress, but she is entertainment--good, old-fashioned cheesecake. She appears only once again, and the audience is left nostalgically thinking of the first scene, which, if corny, has more personality than is supplied by Sonny Tufts, his three brothers, and the girl, all rolled into a neat airmail package...