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...first-rate cast under Conductor Peter Herman Adler, Bass Cesare Siepi was superb as the don, his voice smooth and resonant, his acting a marvel of revealing, reflex-quick responses to the camera's eye. In one of the opera's musical high points, the Act I love duet of Giovanni and Zerlina (Soprano Judith Raskin), Siepi gave his mahogany tones a range of inflections-ardor, indignation, surprise-that told the viewer in the twist of a phrase everything about the don he needed to know. Less effective than Siepi dramatically, Negro Soprano Leontyne Price sang the role...
...Paepcke, could be the time for sport; but the summer was to be reserved for artists and intellectuals. The procession that came was impressive-birdlike Igor Stravinsky, rehearsing his Firebird in jeans he insisted on calling "pantaloons"; the leonine head of Albert Schweitzer bowed over a keyboard; ebullient Mortimer Adler conducting a rapid-fire philosophical discussion while sweating in a sauna (Finnish bath). "The Aspen idea," said Paepcke, "is the cross-fertilization of men's minds...
Fadiman's attempt to remove this onus by main force is neither so precisely measured as Eliot's invention nor so massive as the Robert Hutchins-Mortimer Adler set of Great Books. Fadimaa. has drawn up a similar list of 100, but 'he provides only an introductory pep talk about each book's contents and author. If he sounds like a real estate agent when he assures his readers that they may take up to 50 years to complete the plan, it probably does not matter...
...April 10 Passover Theme - and Variations (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Musical memories of the Jewish religious feast supplied by Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler, Guitarist Ray Boguslav and Pianist Carl Mossbacher...
...clients. Onetime Manhattan p.r. man and for 20 years critic and columnist for the Hollywood Reporter, Irving Hoffman disengaged himself in 1952, began to roam all continents as a sort of gypsy flack. He is or has been everybody's buddy-from Wendell Willkie to Polly Adler, Truman Capote, Pablo Picasso, ferry boat captains, prostitutes, J. Edgar Hoover, the Maharani of Baroda, and countless men of the cloth...