Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tale invites comparison with those classics of darkened childhood, Richard Hughes's High Wind in Jamaica and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Novelist Gloag has named his adult villain Captain Hook, presumably after J. M. Barrie's piratical menace in Peter Pan. One does not have to believe in fairies, however, to give cold credence to the awful reality of Gloag's matriolatrous, patricidal tribe of tots...
...course, for the indiscriminate fan, looking for neither skill nor good competition, the Boston Red Sox and the Washington Senators will jostle at Fenway Park Friday night, Saturday afternoon, and wind up with a big, action-packed doubleheader on Sunday...
...father occupied his time with study, meditation, and writing--he had no recognized profession that took him from his home. Though his children were not especially receptive to his ideas, his son Henry, Jr., declared that the "felt side-wind of their strong composition was that the family became "genially interested in almost nothing but each other." Emerson corroborates this view in one of his notebooks. He records: "Henry James said to me, he wished sometimes the lightning would strike his wife and children out of existence, and he should suffer no more from loving them...
...Italian opera box office offers something of a demurrer. The biggest crowds today come to see the costliest productions; about the only singers in the country who can fill a theater by their names alone any more are Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano. And Di Stefano feels the wind blowing against him. "If music cannot get people into the theater any more," says he, "it's time for us to pack up. If the public goes to La Scala to see how many bananas are hanging on a wall on the stage and not to hear the singers...
There was even some speculation that now, at 74, Rubinstein may be growing a bit nostalgic for the old Germany that treated him so well during seven happy years as a Wunderkind. Perhaps he had played the recital to test the wind for his return to die Heimat...