Word: derring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would like to congratulate Robert Hughes for his article on the Monet exhibition [May 1]. My husband, Gerald Van der Kemp, has been working on the task of restoration of the Monet Gardens, a project made possible through a starting grant by Mrs. DeWitt Wallace...
...School of Music performance offers another season finale this week, in two concerts featuring winners of the annual Concerto/Aria Competition. On Thursday, Roger Voisin conducts the Boston Repertory Orchestra and School of Music vocal and instrumental soloists in Weber's Bassoon Concerto in F Major, Hindemith's Viola Concerto "Der Schwarendreher," and Berlioz's "Les Nuits d'Ete." The Friday program should be even more special, as Joseph Silverstein conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Brahms' Violin Concerto in D Major op. 77, Chausson's Poeme for Violin and Orchestra op. 25, and Liszt's Piano Concerto...
...last week the first visitor was Ambassador to Saudi Arabia John West. Then Vance discussed arms-limitation issues with SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke; Leslie Gelb, director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs; Legal Adviser Herb Hansell, and Nimetz. Next in order came Dutch Foreign Minister Christoph van der Klaauw, CBS Correspondent Richard Hottelet, and a White House meeting on SALT between the President and Brzezinski. A 5 p.m. trip to Andrews Air Force Base to meet Rumanian President Nicolae Ceau?escu concluded a typical business day. He manages to get home most evenings...
...monastery in Japan, now inhabits Maine and writes cleaner English prose than many a Yankee aspirant. However, his stories are still set, with occasional departures (The Japanese Corpse), in Amsterdam, where his sleuths have taken over the turf once occupied by Nicolas Freeling's late, lamented Inspector Van der Valk. Van de Wetering's latest Dutch treat, starring the familiar trio of Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier and their commissaris, is cerebral, comradely and sensual, within the generous Hollander dollops that make KLM a perennially popular airline...
...Barre" and a pot-induced orgy called "Joint Endeavor," a playgoer may have the distasteful and disconcerting sensation that he has been cast as a practicing voyeur. This, indeed, is the underlying trouble with much of Dancin'. It is as if a parade of fertility rites were un der way, always titillating on the surface but devoid of any celebration of life. A guarded cynicism pervades Fosse's work, as if to immunize everyone against the intermittent pain and occasional ecstasy of naked human feeling...