Word: whim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unlikely name of his daydream figure. Smith is such a man as Manhattan's subway millions have dreamed of being. With nothing but a pad and pencil in Room 604 of a building in Owl Street, somewhere downtown, he makes uncounted millions, and the market shudders at his whim. Like sable-jowled Novelist Donleavy himself, he is dark, saturnine, aloof from human contact. The rich tremble before him; only a few poor whom he selects to honor know his great heart. Contemptuous of woman when lured into sex he is more potent than the Grand Turk. He commanded...
Less impressive was the William Byrd Suite arranged by Gordon Jacob. Byrd's music was written for small groups; his light melodies and whim-ical tempos are either lost or made heavy in the transcription for a band of more than 100 players. Walker did his best to preserve the spirit of Byrd and now and then he succeeded. But in the exposed woodwind passages, which should have been airy, 26 clarinets were far too many...
Macmillan's choice was based at least in part on his will, but not on whim. It followed a week-long Conservative Party conference, plus the mysterious Tory ritual by which the visceral wishes of party members, great and small, are gathered, interpreted and closely read for omens...
...Rheingold of 1962, and even a Martian can appreciate her mellow malt and hops. The show itself is really an animated cartoon that uses live people, chiefly Ray Walston as a professor of anthropology from one of the numerous universities on Mars, lately arrived by saucer. He disappears at whim like Topper, and he sprouts antenna horns that boing amusingly. Younger cats should...
...poorest Europeans, who learned how to market their produce. Today the Negroes save too little, spend too much, and have developed fewer businesses than any other group. There are also more broken Negro homes-another legacy of slavery, argue the authors, when Negro families were broken up at the whim of their white masters...