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audience was on his feet, clapping and cheering, not for the speech but out of sheer gratitude for the building. Architectural magazines hailed McGregor Center as "delightful" and "refreshing," and the A.I.A. gave Yamasaki another of its First Honor awards. A Bit Slaphappy. As Yamasaki's body of work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Road to Xanadu | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum mates the delightful buffoons of vaudeville with the delectable houris of burlesque. The pluperfect master of the hilarious revels is Zero Mostel.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 4, 1963 | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

It is said that an Englishman is a gentle man with women and a pirate in business, and a Frenchman a gentleman in business and a pirate with women, to suggest that pi racy is the key to success. Albion is usually represented by an English gentleman who is one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1962 | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Happily, a few islands rise above the morass of tedium. At the close of the Prologue near the beginning, An Actor strikingly initiates the change from major to minor; the orchestra follows. The hamming of Satan, Lucifer, and Astaroth in the Inferno and in Hell provides a pleasant relief, and...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: La Mystere de la Nativite | 12/17/1962 | See Source »

Teresa Berganza, the young Spanish mezzo-soprano, carried on this tradition in particularly disheartening fashion last Thursday night, filling the entire second half of her recital with a remarkably undistinguished lot of songs by Granados, de Falla, Montsalvatge, and the Brazilian Villa-Lobos. There were cradle-songs and tormented Flamenco...

Author: By Kenneth A. Bleeth, | Title: Teresa Berganza | 11/17/1962 | See Source »

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