Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other capital society types were wondering too. Then Perle led them over to meet Television Actress Inger Stevens and explained that the "wedding reception" was cooked up to "celebrate" Inger's "marriage" to a "Congressman," played by William Windom on The Farmer's Daughter. The show's producers had promised the sponsors that they would come up with a publicity gimmick, and that was Perle...
...interplay of a neurotic count's daughter and her sadistic butler lover baring their psyches for two hours is about as static as an opera can get without freezing right in its tracks. To give it life and thrust, music of explosive lyric power and sweep was needed. Rorem, a conservative composer who scorns the avant-garde ("They are all writing the same piece"), provided instead a score that is largely music-to-probe-the-subconscious-by-moody, groaning, occasionally dissonant. The few lighter moments-a duet between two village lovers, the chorus celebrating the festival of Midsummer...
...switch from arms to art. A Sandhurst graduate, he was a lieutenant in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers for four years, resigned to enter a London art school. At first, Laing had a "hairy idea about art." He was a bug on things historical, vaguely Arthurian, and even named his daughter Yseult. One day, he saw a photographic essay on sky diving. The imagery of swooping man below the billowing, brightly colored gores of a parachute combined his interest in the contem porary heroic figure with a desire for strong formal arrangement...
...that the papers I owned weren't providing me with satisfaction." Wihnyk was fascinated by courtrooms, decided that he had "seen hundreds of lawyers who weren't doing as good a job as I thought I could do." So, at 48, he sold his papers, joined his daughter as a student at U.C.L.A. Now an attorney, Wihnyk finds law "totally rewarding," believes that "I'm doing good for myself and for those who put their problems in my hands...
Married. Mary Oppenheimer, 21, only daughter of South African Diamond King and Apartheid Critic Harry Oppenheimer, herself a devoted social worker among Africans; and Gordon Waddell, 28, Scots stockbroker; in a glittering ceremony in Johannesburg's St. Mary's Cathedral, outside of which jostling crowds of wildly cheering blacks and whites were kept at bay by police using walkie-talkies and Alsatian dogs, followed by a lavish reception attended by 1,000 members of the white elite...