Word: coventionalism
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After the curtain had fallen last week on the Royal Ballet's production of Giselle at London's Covent Garden, Dame Margot Fonteyn plucked a single long-stemmed red rose from one of her many bouquets and with a deep curtsy presented it to her young partner-ex-Kirov Ballet Danseur Rudolf Nureev. The young Russian lowered his eyes, sank to his knees and kissed the assoluta's hand. The audience exploded in an ovation that lasted through 23 curtain calls...
...born piano prodigy, who as a young coach with the Hamburg Opera fell under the influence of Composer Gustav Mahler ("It was a revelation to me that a living man could be a genius"), whose works he championed in a distinguished conducting career that took him from Riga to Covent Garden and-following the rise of Hitler-to high esteem in the U.S.; of a heart attack; at his Beverly Hills, Calif., home...
...blood heated early. A naughty servant, Nanny Harris, played bed games with him when he was still a child, and a year or so later, when a family friend gave him his first guinea, young William had no doubt about what to do with it. He hurried to the Covent Garden lodging of Nanny, who by this time conducted her bed games professionally. "I told her the strength of my purse," Hickey recalls, "and proposed going to the play, which she consenting to, there was I a hopeful sprig of 13, stuck up in a green box, with a blazing...
...Second Covent Garden decided to team up with Zeckendorf in the U.S. in order to break into the lucrative American real estate market. But to ensure that their cash would not be hustled into visionary new Zeckendorf expansion schemes, the British placed five representatives on the ten-man board of Zeckendorf Property. In addition, by acquiring a 15% interest in Webb & Knapp itself, London's Philip Hill Group, with which Second Covent Garden is affiliated, gets the right to place the first outside block of three directors on the Webb & Knapp board...
...British mean to see that it stays that way in Zeckendorf Property. Said Henry R. Moore, lanky director of Philip Hill and vice chairman of Second Covent Garden: "In the past. Father Zeckendorf has been inclined to take on more than he can handle." But now, said Moore, with enough British directors on hand to exert a veto, "we have effective control. Bill Zeckendorf may be management, but anything we don't like won't happen...