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...narrow Saunders Street, in the shoddy suburb called Caraleigh at the southern fringe of Raleigh, N.C., stands the Windmill. Its dragon-green neon arms whirl day and night, its sexy carhops skip out in black slacks to take orders on the big, asphalt parking space, its gigantic jukebox, hitched up to outdoor amplifiers, drenches the area with blare: Pin Ball Boogie, maybe, or Jo Stafford's plangent yearning for someone to Make Love to Me -and always plenty of hillbilly...
...Dizzy Whirl. The I've Got a Secret producers, much miffed (they had even offered to drop their opening commercial) but happy to accept the Information Service's offer to reimburse them by the $522 spent for Bannister's airline passage to the U.S., managed to struggle along with another, if less famed, athlete: Jack Warhop, the oldtime Yankee pitcher who served up the first major-league home-run ball to Babe Ruth...
Meantime, Runner Bannister got caught up in a dizzy, two-day whirl in Manhattan, amiably submitted to interviews, posed for pictures, appeared on a few radio-TV shows free from a sponsor's taint, and took in the sights. Another compromising situation was averted in the cloud-banked Rainbow Room of Rockefeller Center when Bannister accepted a small silver cup, guaranteed to be worth no more than $32.90, from a Southern California amateur athletic group. It was a substitute for a $300 sterling silver bowl-the Roger Bannister Trophy-which he could have received only in defiance of British...
...these texts (all late-Medieval English lyrics) pose another challenge for the listener. "Contrast is everywhere," Stravinsky has written, "Similarity is hidden . . . and is found only after the most exhaustive efforts." The "general dance" which provides the framework of the central movement of the Canata draws into its whirl the Sacred History, the Lyke-Wake Dirge, the plaints of innocents and of sinners, and shapes a unified but very personal pilgrim's progress. To wrest objective experience from it, a listener must begin with a faith in this unity and yet with the expectation that it will be justified only...
...India-ink drawings on view in Baltimore represent nightmarish characters and situations that fascinate and disturb simultaneously. In Dancer's Whirl, Toledano presents a ball spun by two spidery hands, symbolic of "the world in its present condition of frenzied agitation." Two Half Moons, or The Disturbed Camel, sets against the night sky a haloed camel being worshipped by three Arabs who look rather like melting vanilla cones. Guardians of the Primal, which the Baltimore Museum bought, shows a bird-faced man doing a minuet with a man-faced bird; between them on a string stretches a fanged serpent...