Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uneven acting styles and some amateurish makeup, which displayed wild, fake jungles of beard, the whole added up to an exciting show, with much credit going to the program's unobtrusive but incisive commentator, Harvard University's Dean of Arts and Sciences, McGeorge Bundy, making his TV debut. A cold, well-spoken orator of his own words, Bundy concluded: "The presidency is a superb instrument of action, and it takes a man to wield it . . . He shall have power-but only with our help...
Sviatoslov Richter is beset by a problem that many a pianist would welcome: his audiences refuse to let him go home. Having astounded Carnegie Hall with an all-Beethoven program in making his Manhattan debut (TIME, Oct. 31), Russia's great pianist returned last week to Carnegie to practice his extraordinary technique on works of other composers. The best way to dismiss his audiences, he discovered, was by quietly closing the keyboard of his concert grand...
...After the 'Appassionata,' you should play nothing." See Music, Debut to Remember...
...liveliest dance show in Manhattan last year was being staged by 36 dusky young people from Guinea. Les Ballets Africains has toured the world for six years and made its U.S. debut last year, but, because the troupe had been too long exposed to civilization, northern style ("certain intellectuals thought we could be cultured by being acquainted with Rimbaud. Picasso and Renoir"), the directors reorganized the company, recruited an almost entirely new group of Guinea dancers most of whom had never set foot on a stage...
ITHACA--A stunning performance by Cornell ruined the varsity cross country team's debut here Saturday as the Big Red triumphed by a 22-33 margin. Cornell's Frank Brockman took first in 27:31 for the five and one-sixteenth mile course, knocking a minute and 10 seconds off his previous best for the year...