Word: stooling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tatum for Fancies. Such mastery of the keyboard did not come easily to Oscar Peterson. His father, a music-loving porter on the Canadian Pacific Railway, sat him on a piano stool when he was five and told him to start practicing. From then on, whenever Papa Peterson left on his railroad trips, he laid out practice schedules. If the practicing was not done on his return, Oscar "caught hell." Oscar began to get professional engagements in his mid-teens, but his father never let applause and paychecks go to his son's head: "You're not going...
Upon admission to the college, the freshman is faced not only with the prohibitive list of "Thou shalt nots" but one important "Thou shalt." Every other week, the underclassman must rouse himself for church services. Compulsory chapel is one leg of what Dodds calls "a three-legged stool of religion." The Student Christian Association and the College's own Department of Religion are the other two braces of Princetonian program. A student can contract out of the compulsory chapel only by going to the Dean and saying that he is satisfied by no religious belief and cannot in conscience attend...
Once upon a medieval time there was a juggler named Cantalbert. He was a good juggler. He could stand on one hand on a stool on a ball on a sword, while he twirled a hoop with his free arm and juggled ten balls with his feet. But people paid no attention. They would rather fight each other, or get drunk, or go to a witch-burning. If he were an ascetic, thought Cantalbert, perhaps Heaven would send him an audience. So he made himself a hair shirt and juggled in that, but, except for a few other ascetics, nobody...
...visitors in the Lord's Prayer. Then she was ready to begin her long night's work. Striding energetically to the middle of the room, she washed her hands in a small basin, and summoned her first patient to sit on a low white hospital stool. As she passed her wavering hands over his limbs, the patient quietly slipped a $1 bill into her apron pocket...
...businessman afflicted with a crippling neuromuscular condition on which he had spent $7,000 in doctors' fees. This patient, who had driven with his wife in their '52 Buick from Santa Monica, Calif., waited all day for the privilege of sitting on Susie's little white stool. After she had passed her hands over his ailing limbs, he said he felt no improvement, but would come back, perhaps stay a week. "After all," he said, "a drowning man will grab at any kind of a straw...