Word: walkerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legion. Faced with playing the dual role of School and Concert band, the group suffers from problems of identity, as well as conflict of interest and rehearsal time. Then there is the added problem of the basically limited repertoire of works originally composed for band. Nevertheless, conductor James Walker always manages to put together an adventuresome program that depends remarkably little on John Philip Sousa...
ISSUN BOSHI, THE INCHLING by Momoko Ishii, illustrated by Fuku Akino (Walker; $3.50). Another old Japanese fable, handsomely illustrated. The hero is no bigger than a man's thumb and is resigned to life as a paperweight for a beautiful princess. But then he slays a dreadful demon, and guess what his reward is? A wish on a magic mallet transforms him into a full-size man and he marries the princess to live happily ever after...
...trustees have for 20 years been looking ahead to the prospect of building an annex across the square, and Britain's governments have allotted more than $5,000,000 toward the purchase of necessary land. Last month, however, the Secretary of State for Education and Science, Patrick Gordon Walker, announced that the Labor government had scrapped its plans for a museum addition. Even more shocking was his hint that the museum's excess books and art treasures might have to be divided up among other institutions...
Potent Symbol. Walker might just as happily have announced a plan to tear down Westminster Abbey. "Deplorable," complained the museum's trustees. "It buries 20 years' work." With near unanimity, scholars condemned Walker's thought of splitting up the museum's gigantic collections. "How should we like to visit the Library of Congress in Richmond, Va.," demanded Manuscript Scholar Julian Brown of London University. "A national library," warned the Sunday Times sternly, "is perhaps the most potent symbol we have left of an English culture...
...show what Dr. Murray had accomplished, Proulx pulled on slings attached to a bar over the bed and lifted himself to a sitting position. He needed nurses' help to get off the bed, but then he stood in a walker, waved one arm high, heaved himself into a comfortable position on the bed, and took a drink from a glass. Proulx "hadn't moved a joint for three years," said Dr. Murray. "But this fellow is going to walk...