Word: working
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bound up with such experiences as eating, excreting and thumbsucking. In later years the libido may be transferred to another person (marriage), may remain grounded in childish sex play (perversion), or may overflow as artistic, literary, or musical creation (sublimation). In fact, said Freud, greatest source of creative work is the sex instinct...
...deedle dee dum dee dum dee dum. . . . Many another orchestra and soloist twanged and blared it. It was even played in Hawaiian style. A local radio station dramatized the life of its author. All this hullabaloo in Washington, D. C. celebrated a work which first took U. S. ears by storm 50 years ago: John Philip Sousa's The Washington Post March...
...Washington Post March, in two-step time, was taken up by U. S. dancing masters and swept the world. When Sousa's own band played in Germany, his audiences clamored for "Der Vashington Pust." The piece was played, as a "typical American" work, at the dedication of a German monument to Richard Wagner. European composers wrote pieces with titles like Vorwärts-A Washington Post, as if this were a special dance like the waltz or polka. An army officer told Sousa that in a Borneo jungle he met a boy with a violin, sawing out the familiar...
...work it does a grand job. For in-fighting in riots its shot cartridges are murderous-at 25 yards they hurl birdshot into a circular pattern six feet in diameter...
...literature of flying there are few literary books. Among the few: Cecil Lewis' Sagittarius Rising, Anne Lindbergh's North to the Orient, Jimmy Collins' Test Pilot, Antoine de Saint Exupéry's Night Flight. Most imaginative of these was Night Flight (1932), the work of a tall, tilt-nosed 39-year-old French airmail flier for whom the air offers a lesson in man's fate...