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JAPAN. The ancient Japanese ritual of chanoyu takes place in a little teahouse beside a stony brook rimmed with flowers. Guests learn how to kneel, bow, and savor the subtleties of the venerable ceremony while munching sweet cake and sipping bitter green...
...artists of the Hamptons form anything but a school. Alexander Brook still paints tender nudes from life, works in a former stable in the old whaling town of Sag Harbor, and putts around in his Model T and 1935 Rolls-Royce. Realists such as Fairfield Porter, Paul Georges and Moses Soyer live within a short drive of Abstractionists Ludwig Sander, Corrado Marca-Relli and James Brooks. Even New Yorker Cartoonists Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg find the region warmly inclusive...
...Bound Brook...
...Challenges. Canon law authorized Mclntyre's move, but he is such a strong-minded man that it was clear from the first he would brook no challenges. A year ago, when Swiss Theologian Hans Küng spoke to Catholics all over the U.S. on reform in the church, conservative Cardinal Mclntyre forbade him to talk at U.C.L.A. He does not like such liberal Catholic magazines as America, The Commonweal and Ave Maria, and so he has banned them from his archdiocesan seminary. Mclntyre was one of 19 cardinals who last year signed a statement protesting to the Vatican...
...playgoer who wants to cultivate amnesia need only listen to the Jule Styne music and the lyrics of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also undid the book. Donald Brook's costumes are deliciously droll, right for the period, and colorful as the frosting on a birthday cake. They should be saved for another show...