Word: traveled
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...drawback to being a piano player is that, unlike most other instruments, you can't take yours with you, and the quality of strange pianos may be poor. Blacklow says that travel can be difficult for him, because he must find a piano immediately. On a recent trip to Florida, for example, he had to obtain permission from the manager of the hotel where he was staying to use the piano in the hotel lounge during if-hours...
...batswomen next see action on Saturday, when they travel to Mt. Holyoke for a doubleheader...
...born Black, you have a one in four chance of dying before the age of one and an even chance of living to the age of five, but you have no chance of voting because it is against the law. You cannot own land or travel freely or live with your family except at the government's discretion...
Facts merely impeded Rousseau. He needed fictions. Desperately poor most of his life, he could not travel. He had plenty of sources to draw on, untraceable today because ephemeral then. He used almanacs and magazines, engravings and photographs. He visited the exotic pavilions at the 1889 Exposition in Paris. He could walk in the Jardin des Plantes and hear the big cats roaring and coughing a few hundred yards away in their iron cages, jungle sounds floating to him through a screen of lush foliage. He "knew" what the Nile looked like, and the Niger, and the Amazon: muddier...
Ormandy's death last week of pneumonia at 85 closed an important chapter of American orchestral history. Before jet travel, conductors routinely spent years in one city, patiently establishing performance traditions; by contrast, a modern music director may lead two or three orchestras at once, allocating only a few weeks a year to each. "This new crop of conductors is marvelously talented, and so eager to make a success in two minutes," Ormandy once said. "There is a very famous one who wants one leg in Berlin, one in London, one hand in Florence, the other in Paris...