Word: wanderer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most agreeable and freest entertainments in Manhattan is, or was, to wander down to Washington Square in Greenwich Village on a warm Sunday afternoon and listen to the folk singers. There, on a good Sunday, ten or a dozen guitarists and banjo pickers will be roosting around the edge of a big, ugly fountain playing loudly or softly according to confidence and competition. The songs are love ballads and louder lieder, seditious of maidenly morals and bankerly riches (not because the minstrels hate capitalists or, in some cases, like maidens, but merely because good ballads in praise of chastity...
...returned to Laurel with her, is now chairman of the board of the First National Bank. After school Leontyne would sometimes wander over to the large green house to visit "Big Auntie" Everlina Greet, the Chisholms' maid (before that, she had been the Wisners', served the two families for 45 years before she retired four years ago). Leontyne would play with Jean and Peggy, the two older of the three Chisholm daughters. They were, she recalls, her "other family," and she was their "chocolate sister...
Yale & Starvation. Rothko's father was a Russian Jewish pharmacist who took his family to the U.S. in 1913. Rothko grew up in Portland, Ore., with nary a thought of becoming an artist: he wanted to be a labor leader. He attended Yale, dropped out to ''wander around, bum about, starve a bit." It was not until 1925, when he was 22, that he settled down in Manhattan to attend Max Weber's art classes at the Art Students League. He did not stay long. As a painter, Mark Rothko is almost wholly self-taught...
Since devout Hindus refuse to kill aging cows, thousands are turned loose to wander through villages and towns, exercising their uncontested right to root in any garden. In Calcutta, great humped Brahman bulls still stalk majestically across streets, bringing traffic to a screeching halt as they nose in a vegetable dealer's baskets. In some smaller cities, humble people may still be seen following cows to catch and sip the animals' urine in the belief that it surpasses in potency all other means of purifying soul and body. Hindu businessmen support old cows' homes more readily than...
...original sound. Moreover, in pseudo stereo "you can spread the sound around the room, but there is no way to get the feeling, as in true stereo, of the proper positioning of the individual instruments." Sharp-eared listeners will detect that the Somerized orchestra has a habit of wandering about the stage: the strings may shift a bit toward center, a trumpeter may wander farther into right field. But most customers are not likely to question the illusion: the gimmicked Toscanini recordings have a luster that their mono counterparts lack...