Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Legrand and his orchestra; Columbia LP). The eerie shimmer of the opening bars sounds like trance music in the movies, gives a hint of the nightmare to follow: tricky "improvements" on Strauss waltzes and other Viennese music. French Conductor Legrand painfully paralyzes the originals' lilting three-quarter time till the music sounds every bit as insipid as French popular music itself. A major atrocity that should cause Vienna to break diplomatic relations with Paris...
...about to abandon their sumptuous life. The Marquis will shave his well-groomed head and don the rough cowl of a Benedictine monk, and the Marquise will forsake her finery for the simple habit of the Little Sisters of the Ascension. In a monastery in central France, he will till the land with his brother monks, eat the simplest of foods, rise at night to chant the office. She will nurse the sick and aid the poor in parts of Paris where on past visits her limousine never brought her. They will never see each other again...
...Wait till next year...
...thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes." -Walt Whitman...
Wrote Editor Deshais: "Some of the society women of Chicago are drinking themselves silly. 'Round the clock they go, lapping it up from high noon till they reach another high at midnight. By their own admission some of them are consuming from twelve to 20 ounces a day ... I love society and I don't like to think there are any lady lushes in society. [But] some women who lead brisk social lives can consume . . . nearly a gallon a week...