Word: avid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Born in Kingston. N.Y., into a nonmusical family (his father is a real estate broker), he became a boy soprano in the Episcopal Church when he was six. By the time he was packed off to New York Military Academy at Cornwall, 13-year-old Robert Craft was an avid collector of modern scores, spent his spare time poring over copies of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps and Les Noces, Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. Says Craft: "I led a kind of secret childhood life...
Most Britons are avid readers of newspapers, and on the whole believe what they read. It is such columns as Mr. Iddon's that make Americans misunderstood and disliked overseas, and instead of writing on his behalf, Mr. Cooke would do well to spend a little of his time making America better understood. Mr. Iddon always appeared to be most critical when he was writing from Florida-in the winter of course-for the consumption of the British public, who perhaps had not seen the sun through the fog for several days. His columns were a sickening experience...
Views. An avid advocate of German unity, but not at any price. Once considered "as Red as a non-Red can get," Brandt has long since tempered his socialism, pays tribute to free enterprise's role in rebuilding West Berlin. Having praised both NATO and German rearmament, he is out of favor with the doctrinaire and neutralist leaders of his party, but since he has the youth and vigor they lack, his admirers think Brandt may yet become Chancellor of Germany...
...Play of Daniel (New York Pro Musica; Decca). In a fascinating excursion into the Middle Ages, the nation's most avid collectors of musical antiquities present an early church musical drama in the original Latin text. The vocal parts suggest everything from Gregorian chant to folk song, the orchestra includes such authentic curiosities as a rebec, a vielle and a minstrel's harp. The result is a sound as finely jeweled, as warmly colored, and often as moving as an expanse of stained glass...
Most of the early titans bought art as they bought stocks; they were interested only in authenticated masterpieces, the blue-chip established values of culture. Their successors were less lavish of necessity, but no less avid, and often supported American art, as their predecessors did not. Among Author Saarinen's gallery...