Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GEORGE PICKEN-Rehn Gallery, 36 East 61st St. Picken teaches painting at Columbia University. His work is vehemently abstract, but an absent-minded memory of nature sometimes sneaks in. Through...
Bissier prizes his little songs and feels lonely when they are absent. But absent they were last week: 130 of his recent works, 88 of them straight from his tidy chest of portfolios, went on show in the new quarters of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art (see opposite page). Two years ago, few people outside his native Germany had ever heard of Bissier; it took a major prize at the São Paulo Bienal in 1961 to establish him abroad as the leading abstractionist of small harmonies...
Honorably Ineligible. Home's father was a cheerful, absent-minded nobleman of the Wodehouse breed-the sort that would take potshots at hares from the drawing-room window. At first young Alec seemed to take after him. Eton contemporaries still remember Alec Home's finest hour, in the big cricket match of 1922, when he scored 66 runs on a sticky wicket against Harrow. In those days, Author and Fellow Etonian Cyril Connolly wrote, Britain's new Prime Minister "was the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with...
...Alec's younger brother, Playwright William Douglas-Home, warns that his "apparent mildness, his good-natured absent-mindedness," even his grin, are deceptive. William also vows that under Home, unlike Macmillan, "there won't be any nepotism." Says he: "Sister Bridget won't be chairing the Tory conference at Blackpool, my bird-watching brother Henry won't be next Secretary of State for Scotland, I will not be sent to the U.N., and Edward, my youngest brother, who spent four years on the Burma railway as a prisoner of war, will not be Minister without Portfolio...
...full concerto together until the morning of the premiere. But when the musicians reached the final instrumental fantasy that ends the work, the composer was forgiven his wish to linger over his music. The players leapt to their feet with rare shouts of "Bravo!"-as much for the absent Ginastera as for Ricci's command of the intricate music...