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...spectators can now see, but the actors are meant to be in sightless confusion, playing blindman's buff. They begin a convulsively amusing, slow-motion night dance of straight-arming the air, pawing and fumbling for objects and people, mistaking identities, and trading unintended indiscretions under the misleading cover of darkness...
...club today includes 286 doctors, lawyers, businessmen and journalists. U.S. Steel Board Chairman Roger Blough is a leading Penguin, so is Investment Banker Robert Lehman, Novelist Paul Horgan, Poet Robert Lowell and opera-loving ex-Boxer Gene Tunney. One opera buff recently tried in vain to buy his way into the club with a $25,000 "gift," but membership is by invitation, and openings usually occur only when a member dies. Though the club is frequently accused of snobbism, past President Robert Snyder, a corporation lawyer, declares that "economic status is unknown and unimportant. I imagine that William Rockefeller...
...bouquet of flowers carried by her Negro maid that a lover had just arrived. And when Manet combined Giorgione's Arcadian pastoral with postures from a corner of Raphael's Judgment of Paris, and then transformed them into all-too-contemporary figures, one of them in the buff, picnicking on the banks of the Seine, Napoleon III considered the painting, Le Déjeuner sur I'herbe, a threat to public morals. Both it and Olympia today hang in the Louvre...
FRANCESCO GEMINIANI: CONCERTI GROSSI, OPUS 7 (World Series). For the baroque buff who wants to be a bit more recherche than, say, a Telemann fan, Geminiani might offer just the right gambit. Elegant and more expressive than many of his contemporaries, he is given a good hearing by that satin-stringed Italian chamber group called simply I Musici...
...walls inside are papered with the buff, broad-lined sheets that take any Philadelphian back to his first days in school. The printing on them, broad and labored, is by six and seven-year-olds. "AFRO-AMERICANS ARE BLACK," several of them read. "I AM AN AFRO-AMERICAN. I AM BLACK...