Word: creators
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fans have played Follow-the-Football, and the offensive line remains a confused jumble, a creator of sound effects. But the "great men" who emerge are more than aware of just what stands behind--or, rather, in front of--their success...
...days of writing. Stout's agoraphobic master sleuth, who made his first appearance in Fer-de-Lance (1934), was an intuitive armchair detective in the manner of Sherlock Holmes. Wolfean devotees have contended that their hero's infinite array of adroit solutions stemmed from his creator's multifaceted life. A youthful mathematical prodigy, Stout was a prolific freelancer, an ardent champion of political causes and a jack-of-most-trades who at various times trained jumping pigs and sold cigars. Nero Wolfe's last case, A Family Affair (TIME, Nov. 3), was published only weeks before...
Occasionally Powers' exasperation and despair overcome him and his control slips. Then he is apt to plant heavy symbols: worms, lilies, a dead dove. But for the rest, he remains the creator of a small miracle: the only man besides John Updike who can write about salvation and damnation in a world rapidly becoming trivialized by loneliness and loss of ardor, a world with an end but no amen...
WITH THE SAME concern for drawing out the contrasts between different sections of a piece, the Bach Society turned to Beethoven's Symphony No. 1. The Orchestra followed whispering passages with resounding responses--a favorite juxtaposition of the composer. Written while its creator was under the influence of classical masters Mozart and Haydn, the symphony contains hints of Beethoven's spirit of adventure in the final two movements. Stulberg conducted the repetitive and less interesting first half of the piece too slowly, adding, however, to the effect of the lively third and fourth movements which the orchestra performed with extra...
...begins, Candide with piano, an innocent exploited by everyone he encounters, especially Wagner (who became his son-in-law). Lest the audience wonder about the personality of Wagner, the film transforms him into Dracula, literally sucking the blood of his first patron, then into Dr. Frankenstein, sole creator of a monster named Hitler...