Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...niches and all the floors?is filled with books, everything from Boccaccio to Beerbohm, plus a slim volume called Per Piacere, Non Mangiate Le Margherite (Please Don't Eat the Daisies). In the room next door, a television set peers out from the interior of an enormous iron stove, symbolically lighting no fires in this particular house. High above it all, bolted to the eaves, is a functioning 28-bell carillon that, at the touch of a switch, tolls out something from Carmen, which, in the Larchmont libretto, means "Come home." Whether for dinner, discipline or to greet a visitor...
...little else to do but watch the games on Tuesday and Friday nights in the $190,000 school gym, the grandest building in the county. In Ohio, the citizens of Bethel Township regularly drop past Ray Morrison's general store to rock on their heels around the stove and talk of the local high school team (12 and 6 this season) and of Ohio State University's national champions, one of the great clubs of recent years...
...ideal he continually articulated and stove to achieve was that even without education all men can prefer good music to bad. He said in a discussion of his earliest work, The Concord Song Book: "The place where lasting music will be built is where the two great roads of popularity and of lasting beauty intersect. In the pursuit of music, as in the acquirement of every form of artistic expression, we encounter the aesthetic paradox, that what we like first we seldom like best --that we prefer our second choice to our first.... The real way to grow the power...
Venturing cautiously into the lung-freezing cold, the crew lit torches and stretched a guide rope through the darkness to the place where the cylinder had fallen. By the light of a bonfire they pitched a tent over the marked spot. Inside the tent they set up a stove and fed it with empty provision boxes and spare clothes soaked in used lubricants. Foot by foot a shaft sank down through the snow. After 30 hours of continuous work, it was 50 ft. deep, but still no sign of the oxygen cylinder...
...life story of the illiterate Irish gal (Tammy Grimes) from Hannibal, Mo. who went forth into the world with a stout heart and flying fists to kayo success. She married a miner (Harve Presnell) who doted on her and, when he struck it rich, hid $300,000 in a stove, where it was burned to a crisp. When he struck it richer, she carted him to Denver, got mauled trying to crash society, and carted him to Europe. He in time went back to Leadville and his saloon pals; she in time survived the Titanic ; and the two of them...