Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boogie-woogie pieces for Jose Iturbi's Holiday in Mexico. Lately, Previn has been feeling the burdens of age, sharpened by a desire to compose more serious music: "You can't write it in Hollywood. I've had ten years there, and I don't want to look back at myself on my 50th birthday and know I haven't tried." But he would never be happy, he confesses, cutting himself off entirely from Hollywood. There is far more to music. Composer Previn earnestly believes, "than sitting around writing string quartets for League of Composers...
...Mark Twain slyly, "if you get yourself the right kind of a lark and work him right, you can easily train him to get up at 9:30 every time." What about bad habits? Twain is an expert on giving up smoking: "I can give it up whenever I want to. I've done it a thousand times." Why is he wearing a white suit? "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society." Wielding the satiric pinpoint that is sometimes more deadly than the sword, Twain proceeds...
...patients who have a tendency to form kidney stones, doctors usually want to increase the flow of water through the system. And to speed it up, some have prescribed diuretics (of which no fewer than 109 are listed in the Physicians' Desk Reference) though this may be dangerous. Last week Urologist Julius H. Winer of the University of California Medical Center in Los Angeles reported in the A.M.A. Journal that he had confirmed what suds lovers have known for centuries: among his patients, "beer gave an adequate rapid diuresis in most cases." It is safe...
...what earned Frank Lloyd Wright the grudging but nearly universal respect of his fellow architects was his insistence that architecture must be an art. "What people want, what they desperately need," Wright said, "is some communication of the spirit, some quality of the soul." It was toward that aim that Wright's whole genius was directed. Almost uniquely among architects, he was able to develop his own particular vision in terms of one highly individualistic but consistent idiom of forms. His prodigious explorations of space and form marked and celebrated Frank Lloyd Wright and his own time on earth...
...anything, hearty Geoffrey Fisher seemed relieved at having one less official affair to sit through. On a quick tour of the Far East, he had plenty to do in Japan. He wanted to visit Kobe to consecrate St. Michael's Cathedral and see various Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. What did he most want to see in Japan? Replied Fisher: "What I most wanted to see was Bishop Michael Hinsuke Yashiro [Japan's Anglican Presiding Bishop]-and I am very happy to have seen...