Word: wheelchair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three Gilliland children surviving, Beth, 10, is still in a toes-to-shoulders cast. Nancy will go back to school next month, but in a wheelchair. Ellen, 4, has recovered well from a fracture of the pelvis, and will start kindergarten. Remembering the members of her family whom she has lost, and thinking of the sight restored to the cornea recipients, June Gilliland says simply: "Isn't it a wonderful living memorial...
...playwriting Beckett thrives on frugality and restraint. He tends to use a small cast, to observe the classical unities, and then to set up further obstacles for himself. Now he uses a mute character, now just one man and a tape-recorder; now he confines one character to a wheelchair and two others inside ashcans, now he does away with spoken words entirely. In his latest work, simply called Play (1963), the three characters are ensconced in big white urns with only their heads visible...
...Aristotle's Ethics or Herman Kahn's thermonuclear theories. The music is just as uncompromising. A typical program may consist of a Bach suite, a Mozart piano concerto, and a trio of demanding modern works by Darius Milhaud, conducted by the arthritically crippled composer from his wheelchair. All 40 of the visiting artists also teach, and among those present besides Milhaud this season are Met Opera Star Eleanor Steber and the renowned teacher of Van Cliburn, Rosina Lhevinne. By encouraging the festivaliant to start the day with a brisk half-hour hike up the Roaring Fork or Castle...
Unearthly music from the Environment and Sound Mobile drifted in through the windows of the Mills College Music Building where the old man sat, brittle and aching in his wheelchair. Outside, on a balcony, a college girl dressed in death-wish black and a free-form welder's helmet slithered through snail and snake dances, while on another balcony, a pallid redhead paused in her dance every now and then to tug the string that let a plastic moon pop up from the bushes below. In the branches of a tree on the campus, a girl in red softly...
...Quatrains for seven instruments and the speaking voice of his wife Madeleine. To the delight of the admiring audience, the Suite turned out to be a "chance" work, in which all seven players were free to find their own tempos and moods while Milhaud sat by in his wheelchair to draw them into occasional togetherness with a stiff little sweep of his baton...