Word: waltzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Symington boarded the Cadillac again, rode to the courthouse square to do his speechmaking bit as guest of honor at Abbeville's yearly Dairy Festival. Atop a speaker's platform adorned with red, white and blue bunting and "Symington for President" signs, he smilingly endured the Missouri Waltz played on an electric organ, then permitted photographers to snap away as Dairy Festival Queen Laurie Lee Broussard, 17, planted a decorous kiss on his cheek...
...Yellow-lined tablet paper is IN; good drafting is on the way OUT; "upcoming," "orientation" and "challenging" should be OUT; split infinitives are with us. ¶Air-cooled shoes are OUT; the Waltz Club is IN. Ulcers are IN; bachelors are often...
Until last summer. Pianist de Groot was a two-handed recitalist of solid international reputation. Then, during a recording session, he felt a sudden cramp in his right hand, was barely able to finish playing Liszt's Melancholy Waltz. Although X rays disclosed no abnormality in the hand, neither cortisone nor treatment by a neurologist was able to restore full use to De Groot's fingers. He set about learning what left-hand compositions he could find, soon decided that there were not enough to keep a concert career going...
...other prisoners seem to be sharing the cell in the old prison-fortress -for instance, Joseph K. of Franz Kafka's The Trial-they are quickly evicted with the first entry of the jailer. He is a redhaired, comic-opera functionary who promptly asks the prisoner for a waltz. As they whirl off down the corridor, it becomes plain what Author Nabokov is up to; he is writing a fantasy-satire whose imagery is surrealist, whose logic is the logic of the dream...
Jutland, N.J., Hunterdon Hills Playhouse: Joan Bennett and Donald Cook in Anniversary Waltz...