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...Athens, a city where "everybody knows everybody else," almost everybody has heard of Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis (pronounced Ee-o-ahn-ee-dis). A spectral, Beria-like figure who commands Greece's military police force-the feared ESA-loannidis was not seen by the public even at the swearing-in ceremony of Phaedon Gizikis, the colorless army general who is Greece's new President. He did not really have to, since it is loannidis and not Gizikis who runs the junta...
...same time, Joan (pronounced Jo-ahn) Miró is wide awake. He rises early in the morning, puts in a quick ten minutes of exercise, by 8 a.m. is hard at work in the white stucco studio in Majorca designed for him by Architect Jose Luis Sert, in 1956. Both the studio and the 13-room, 200-year-old stone farmhouse behind it which serves Miró as an annex, are crammed with his new paintings and sculptures. Among them stand the found objects that furnish at once a touchstone to reality and the impetus to further dreams: a child...
...performance was part of a ten-concert series by the orchestra at Stanford. Though the Suisse Romande is well known to American audiences from its recordings, this was the orchestra's first visit to the U.S. As debuts go, it was a grueling test. Ansermet (pronounced ahn-ser-may) led his 115-member ensemble through a symphonic obstacle course, accepting the challenge of some of the thorniest works of Stravinsky, Bartok, Prokofiev and Berg. As if that were not enough, Ansermet then jetted to Manhattan to conduct five equally demanding works with the New York Philharmonic last week...
...Rehearsal, one of the few glittering productions in the dismal new season on Broadway. It is the motif of the play and the motif of Playwright Jean Anouilh, who is perhaps the most produced of all living playwrights. Since the death of Jean Giraudoux almost 20 years ago, Anouilh (ahn-oo-ee) has been the essential voice of the French theater-a voice that speaks so dryly of shattered hope that you can almost hear it break...
...picture, Actor Hudson spends most of his time exercising the vocabulary of uplift ("Your good deeds are your purest prayers") with the local Confucius (Philip Ahn), and conferring candy bars on an incredibly clean and healthy-looking horde of refugee Korean children. In fact the picture is so ineffably high-minded that the heroine (Anna Kashfi) never finds herself in anything more exciting than the hero's alms. He sends her candy bars too. By the time the lights finally go up, the sugar count of this picture is so dangerously high that theater managers might be well advised...