Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dresden-born and the son of a viola player, Ronnefeld toured Germany in his teens as a concert pianist. Now chief conductor at the Bonn Stadttheater, he has written a handful of other compositions, but The Ant is both his first full-scale opera and his first work to attract wide attention. The boos it also attracts seem to Composer Ronnefeld merely "stupid." To people who read it correctly, he insists, his ant opera "introduces a higher reality...
Predictably, the trend is to luxury and gadgetry. Small runabouts with rakish lines, chrome fittings, and decorator-styled upholstery look more and more like cars, presumably to attract diffident womenfolk. Oceangoing yachts sport bulkhead-to-bulkhead carpeting and baby blue staterooms. New compact radar sets, depth-sounders and other electronic gear cram the cockpits. Pushbutton winches eliminate the need to "weigh" anchor. Hot-water heating, cold-water cooling, seawater evaporators and adapters for turning iceboxes into electric refrigerators lure the boat owner. Apparently it takes a heap of gadgets to make a boat a home...
...White House, and Jack Kennedy invited him to his inauguration. Every ballplayer worth his mitt got the de luxe, or crumb-bum treatment, and even Bernard Baruch, elder statesman of the stock market ticker, benched down at Shor's now and then. But Toots made no attempt to attract the glossier types of café society. "Who needs ya?" he bellowed cheerily...
Poet Richard Wilbur has reportedly been offered the Boylston Professorship and has declined. His case exemplifies, according to a source in the University, the problem the Administration has in filling the position. Although its prestige is high, the salary of the Boylston Professor is often not enough to attract a prominent writer, poet, or critic away from his work...
...Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (Warner), Actress Vivien Leigh, now 48, not only admits her age; she exploits it. Her age and its problems, the problems of a woman young enough to want a man but too old to attract one, are the subject and substance of this picture, an adaptation of the only novel ever published by Playwright Tennessee Williams (TIME, Oct. 30, 1950). It was a rather limp novel, and this is sometimes a rather limp picture, but Actress Leigh comes out of it with laurels refreshed and a new screen career before...