Word: swans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstration arranged for TIME'S music editors and a panel of scientific experts, Scheiber and his partner Tom Mowry played music ranging from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake to rock and electronic music specially composed for the four-channel medium. The sound quality proved remarkably high, though not as high as equivalent tapes...
...YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). "Two Ballet Birds" are the musical scores of Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky and excerpts from The Fire bird Suite by Stravinsky...
...what would lead to it--is transmorgrified. It is the old ugly duckling routine: man, we are told, is ugly, the uglier the better, because (and this is where the inexorable logic of the human heart denies the overwhelming evidence of history) man is soon to become the swan. What kind of swan? Well, the speculation forms the basis for a whole body of literature, a literature whose only real unity is a pervasive belief in man's future transfiguration. Tolkein, Hesse, Arthur C. Clark, all the fountainheads of their respective cults, offer variants on the theme. Man, either...
...drink, and it is widely rumored that on occasion they even have fights?and fun. Princess Anne, Charles' younger sister, is beginning to give her aunt and uncle a run for the tabloid money. Only 17, she has lately turned from a chubby duckling into a passably delectable swan, wings through London in exotic hats and miniskirts, and recently danced on the stage with the cast of Hair (clad...
Perhaps there is a reason; painting is essentially a more voluptuous mode of expression than drawing. To judge from 16th century copies of his now lost Leda and the Swan, he could depict sensuous nudes when he chose. But the drawing that survives of Leda's head shows a lady ethereal and detached. Surviving also are the austere and delicate silverpoint studies of hands, believed to have been made for the portrait of Ginevra dei Benci. The painting itself, in Washington's National Gallery, has been cut off just below the shoulders (though no one knows in which...