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...fairly fashionable party" on Long Island (a place he should obviously avoid), Dr. Hartogs heard that word again-not from a greasy mechanic, but from the lips of a "splendidly groomed and passably pretty specimen of suburban femininity," who uttered "a string of barracks words paraded with a crisp Vassar inflection...
Knaves & Saints. The surest fact that can be gathered from his work is that Master E.S. was a goldsmith whose crisp, fine-lined incising in gold and silver undoubtedly led him to explore engraving on copper plates. Gutenberg had just discovered a way to print words, and perhaps the notion that pictures too could be printed in much the same way led E.S. to experiment. He may have started simply by making studies for goldsmith work. Some of his prints, indeed, seem to be design patterns for chalices and monstrances. But he went on to fashion in copper a Gothic...
...quarter of his more than 100 annual bookings. When the Israel Philharmonic went on to Cleveland last week, he led it from the piano in a smoothly flowing performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1, then stood up to conduct Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 with crisp authority. Such experience helps him as a pianist, he says, because "piano music is so symphonic. The piano is a neutral-sounding instrument on which you have to orchestrate the other sounds-the oboe, the horn, the strings...
...movie is not completely tear-free. John and Roy Boulting, who directed it, favor a raining-in-the-sunshine effect. And of course with that irrepressible old crybaby John Mills on hand, even a crisp comedy would turn milksoppy. Mills probably has a provisional clause in his movie contracts: "I shall produce X-hundred buckets of tears on screen, or else ..." His daughter Hayley Mills isn't underproductive herself, but she's vivacious enough to get away with it. Remember how she got away with Polyanna, made from the book that was so bad it made the Bobbsey Twins look...
...almost a palace coup in reverse. With the cool, crisp disdain of a modern-day Victoria, India's Rajmata (Queen Mother) of Gwalior informed the governor of the state of Madhya Pradesh last week that 36 members of the state's ruling Congress Party had defected to her opposition United Front Party. That gave the Rajmata, who is 47 and as tough a politician as they come, a clear majority in the 296-mem-ber state legislature. Flabbergasted, the governor suspended the legislature indefinitely, a move that could either open the way to new elections or lead...