Word: split-level
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...habits are in his favor: he has been known to greet visitors in his underwear, date hash-house waitresses, play the bongo drums. In Beatnik Kerouac's phrase, he seems to want everything at the same time. On the other hand, he has been living in a pleasant split-level Hollywood house instead of a way-out pad in San Francisco's North Beach; he has extensive investments; he has never said a single kind word for dope and has expressed interest-grammatically-in what happens to the world tomorrow...
What lends the book its interest, despite shortcomings, is a scattering of mixed-blood, split-level aristocrats, culturally nouveau riche but genealogically ancien régime, and some well-described scenes of a dismal garrison town with bored military wives and senior officers well past their World War I prime. Above all, there is the unusual setting. Despite the fact that Novelist Dohrman, 29, has spent only one week in Haiti, he manages to convey that the jungle to him is partly D. H. Lawrence's "blood-consciousness" and partly O'Neill's "dat ole davil...
...best Revue had to offer was a split-level pair of cafe comics named Mike Nichols, 26, and Elaine May, 25, whose satiric thrusts at the telephone company's "Organization Woman" were fresh, inspired stuff. Nichols and May also did a racy, offbeat skit called "The Dawn of Love or The Moon Also Rises in an Automobile!" Scratching her ear and nervously shoving her sleeve up and down her forearm, Elaine admired the "suicidally beautiful" lake while Mike talked of other things. "Every human being has got certain natural urges, and I've got some," he began...
...developments -alternatively praised as the first fruits of social engineering, and damned as the most fantastically irreal estate since Prince Potemkin's villages-have had a drastic effect on the American way of life. But who can actually say what the effect has been? Have they created a split-level personality? Is the American male developing a barbecue pituitary or a carport stoop? Is his wife, with all her built-in conveniences, becoming a technological unemployee...
...only a diamond-edged musical intelligence but a sinewy will that forced them to hew rigidly to the demands of their talents. The distinguished Boulanger alumni-they call themselves the "Boulangerie"-were gathered in all parts of the world last week to celebrate her 70 birthday. At the split-level chalet of Conductor Igor Markevitch, in the Swiss Alps near Montreux, "chère Nadia" herself,-white-haired, prim as ever in a black evening gown, held court before such famous ex-pupils as Pianist Clara Haskil, Cellist Pierre Fournier, Composer Darius Milhaud...