Word: bows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Half a century after his final bow, Sherlock Holmes remains the best-known character in English fiction. With the possible exception of Hamlet and Don Quixote, he may be the most recognizable creation in all literature. The man in the deerstalker cap is the subject of a full-length biography (Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, by William Baring-Gould), the center of a club (the Baker Street Irregulars) and a palpable presence wherever police congregate, from Scotland Yard to Watergate. Less than two months ago, Samuel Rosenberg probed the sources of Sir Conan Doyle's imagination in Naked...
Called the "Ram Song" sonata be cause Brahms borrowed the melody of his Opus 59 Regenlied, the D major so nata emerged a varied, complex work with some diabolical technical demands. But Starker plays the cello as naturally as others speak. From a firm and steady bow a shimmering melodic line un wound, juxtaposed with rich chords. After the performance Starker said, "You'd think Brahms had written it for the cello...
...best stories is Edward and God, about a young teacher who pretends to great holiness in order to seduce a churchly girl. It gets him hi trouble with his atheistic school directress, whom he must thereupon seduce. Equally as good is Symposium, a pants-off bow to Plato, which follows several male doctors, a woman doctor and a nurse through a nightlong rigadoon. Everyone is feeling randy, and each soul present, though perfectly satisfied that he knows what is happening, is in fact calamitously mistaken about who wants to do what to whom...
...home, however, in the profanity of a phrase like "goddam luck." I think she represses her fighting instinct too much in the first act, and one mutters, "At last!," when she really lets go in the third. I like the idea ok having her aim her archery bow at Mae's back. I did not care at all for Barbara Bel Geddes' Maggie on Broadway; Miss Ashley's here is as impressive as I have seen...
...Carpenter Center has an exhibit of 60 million-year-old crystals from India. The rocks are for sale and you can choose from such exotic minerals as Stilbite bow ties, Mesolite or Okenite, either furry or on Quartz. Even if you're not in the rock market, the shapes and colors of these stones merit looking...