Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grande dame of the American stage, Katharine ("Kit") Cornell, is now 80. And since she cannot get out much these days, the American National Theater and Academy decided to stage the presentation of its National Artist Award at her Manhattan town house. An actress-manager, producer, and Broadway star until she retired over a decade ago, the legendary Cornell was renowned for her romantic roles (the star-crossed Iris March in The Green Hat, long-suffering Elizabeth in The Barretts of Wimpole Street). She also looks back with satisfaction on her talent- scouting. Among those who won early recognition...
...Shapiros, who reside in Brookline, have been married for seven years. "As time goes by, it seems that a child isn't a necessity," said Carolyn Shapiro, an artist and art teacher in the Newton school system...
...Australian interior frontier, shimmered with metaphysical mirages. With desert-dry irony, The Solid Mandala (1966) considered the lives of twin brothers, respectively a librarian and a simpleton, and praised feeling at the expense of intellect. Three years ago, in The Vivisector, he produced an ambitious account of an artist who coldly rejects life whenever it impinges upon his work. White himself is an intensely private man who lives in Sydney with several dogs and a male housekeeper, and almost never grants interviews. (When he won the Nobel last November White remarked briefly to reporters, "I've been threatened with...
Boucher was an eminently sociable artist but not a profound one. He could take any theme-classical myth, the fete champetre, or fantasies about the Emperor of China-and, decking it with foamy light and gamboling bodies as firm as little pink quails, create from it a microcosm of civility and pleasure. The Allegory of Music (1764) became for Boucher an occasion to gently eroticize the myth; the nuptial flutters of the muse's doves are clearly of more interest than the musical score behind them...
...razzle-dazzle concertizing does not always win cheers for Organist Fox. "I am controversial as hell," he admits. "My more conservative colleagues regard me as an infidel. They say I'm a showman, and I'm proud to be one." Communication, argues Fox, is what an artist lives for-"audiences on their feet screaming for more." He dismisses musicological purists as "barnacles on the ship of music...