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...useless to look in Etruscan things for "uplift." If yon want uplift, go to the Greek and the Gothic. If you want mass, go to the Roman. But if you love the odd spontaneous forms . . . go to the Etruscans...
...style that had its roots in his own past, with a few overtones of more "progressive" jazz. At the piano was Teddy Wilson, who starred in Goodman's first, well-remembered trio, and most of the tunes came from the same period: Body and Soul, Memories of Yon, One O'Clock Jump, etc. If things continue as well, Goodman hopes to take his "all-stars" on a tour of Europe next fall...
...Yon Tyme reviewer, late from Camelot, Doth pleasure me no ende. 'Tis true...
...drink the local Calvados (homemade applejack) at meals and between meals. In the Vendée, schoolchildren pack a bottle of wine in their lunch baskets; if school is far from home, they take an extra bottle to fortify them for the long trip back. In La Roche-sur-Yon, a three-year-old boy was admitted to a clinic after his family had tried to cure him of worms with dosages of Pernod. In a town near by, a 19-month-old infant died of acute alcoholism...
...boned, twelve and tenderhearted, Crescent Delahanty lives on a Southern California ranch, but spends her finest hours with King Arthur and Shelley. "The day dies, its burnished wrack burns in yon western sky," she tells herself as she watches a sunset. But Cress never writes this sort of thing in her notebooks ("The Poems of Crescent Delahanty, Volume III"); there she strives for something starker and more modern, e.g., "You do not have to wipe the noses of your dreams...