Word: zodiac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid from $15 to $50 a season to look on), put on three premieres. The Minotaur was a well-conceived but not always well-executed marriage of classical myth, classical and modern dance (by John Taras), modern music (by Elliott Carter) and modern art (by Joan Junyer). In Zodiac, weak music and dance were overpowered by blinding costumes and sets. Highland Fling, in which sylphs run in & out of an interminable Scottish wedding to faintly Scottish and vaguely dissonant music, was an unhappy case of incompatibility...
Applicants for personal readings, mailorder horoscopes, etc. waited from four to six weeks for their answers. At least 162 big-town newspapers printed daily horoscopes. In offices, halls, parlors and tents across the nation, whole classes studied scriggly zodiac charts with the intensity of savants seeking a cure for baldness. One astrological annual, the Moon Sign Book, sold at least 1,000,000 copies of its 1945 issue for $1 a throw. The five leading astrological periodicals (priced from 10? to 25?) boasted a combined circulation of nearly a million...
...bits as Carriage fares, and Hot Ashes to Resuscitate the Drowned. The style of its Farmer's Calendar has changed with the times ("Follow your markets closely by radio . . ."). But its index is still a key to rustic and rare information: Feasts and Fasts, Movable; Twilight, Length of; Zodiac, Signs...
...murals in the U.S. glistened last week with a fresh, 750-gallon coat of paint. The concourse ceiling of Manhattan's Grand Central Station, a 40,000-sq.-ft. turquoise and gold-leaf image of the heavens (a romping Pegasus, twinkling Mazda stars, eight signs of the Zodiac) gleamed as bright as new. The big arched picture-ceiling, put up in 1913, had never before been repainted. It was a ticklish job. The busy, perpetually thronged space beneath it could not be shut off-and a mere half pint of paint dropped no feet might permanently discolor...
Grand Central's stardusted ceiling has always been a focal point for both esthetic and astrological controversy. On at least one point-placement of Zodiac signs and constellations-Designer James Monroe Hewlett came a cropper. As one letter-to-the-editor writer once informed the New York Times: "The ceiling stars were all put on exactly backward. Their arrangement ii a mirror image. . . . This reversal is, of course, as confusing as a map showing New York on the West Coast and San Francisco on the East. . . otherwise, very accurate...