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Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach arrived for two performances at the Metropolitan Opera last week after causing excitement in Avignon, Venice and Belgrade. It is hardly an opera that sends audiences home humming and whistling. Wilson, 32, is a theatrical anarchist, a direct descendant of Dada. He...
The suspect is a descendant of the Newhalls, an old and wealthy California family. Both his grandmother, Frances Newhall Woods, and his father, Frederick Nickerson Woods III, hold stock in the family-founded Newhall Land and Farming Co., which has large investments in agriculture, cattle, oil, gas and land. Despite...
So began and ended the nation's July 4 birthday party, but Bicentennial ceremonies continued through the week and will go on for some time to come. The magnificent tall ships that so enthralled New Yorkers raised anchor and headed toward more than a dozen cities, including Boston, Miami...
ARCHIBALD COX, 64, a sixth-generation descendant of Connecticut's Roger Sherman, won acclaim as the Watergate special prosecutor who insisted that a President, like any citizen, is accountable under the law. Now back at Harvard as a law professor. Cox believes the Watergate drama was a profound affirmation...
That lesson is not lost on Spain's King Juan Carlos, as he attempts to market the monarchy in a riven land. When he was named Francisco Franco's successor-to-be in 1969, the young prince spoke a vow worthy of Don Quixote: "My pulse will not tremble when...