Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly so many as Channing's offstage performance. After she had completed a rousing encore, the President gave her a bear hug and a kiss, soon whisked her onto the floor for a fox trot-the first time he has danced in public since his celebrated solo with Imelda Marcos at the Manila Conference. As the rest of the revelers stood aside to watch, L.B.J. smiled gamely, his face all but obscured by the red ostrich-feather hat that covered his Dolly's tangerine-colored...
...children's songs they sang were The Lamplighter's Hornpipe, in which Evelyne accompanied Beers's down-home riddle playing with the clackety-clack rhythms of "limberjacks" (a pair of loose-legged, hand-carved puppets), and a square-dance tune in which Martha played a squawky solo on the "cornstalk fiddle" by drawing a shoestring bow over the strands of a cornstalk...
...lordly violin and its less illustrious relatives in the string family are in trouble. As today's concert halls grow more cavernous, it becomes increasingly difficult for a solo violinist to project his sound above a thundering orchestra and out to the most distant seats. And even if he does, many stereo hi-fi addicts contend that the sound is only a pale echo of the "electronically enhanced" concertos that they can conjure up in their living rooms...
...very effective when other people are around," Yachtsman Francis Chichester once said about his penchant for solo performances. "Any attempt to diverge from this lot makes me half a person." Whether he was roaming the English countryside as a boy, piloting a seaplane from Australia to Japan as a young man, or crossing the Atlantic in a small sloop in middle age. Chichester always faced danger alone. Though he has never escaped fear ("A spot of panic is good for you, keeps you alive"), Chichester has loved the rewards of mastering...
...Night. That combination would be pretty good radio fare in St. Louis or Atlanta. But to foreign listeners from Asadabad to Zamboanga, accustomed for years to more somber programming, the Voice of America's swinging new broadcasting format sounds almost as far out as a piccolo solo by Lyndon Johnson...