Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...master mirthologist, as in two of three one-act plays he adroitly sketches a satire and broadly paints a farce. However, in the first play, Visitor from Mamaroneck, he achieves a new tone of rue in the poignant confrontation between a much-married duo. The skill of Director Mike Nichols and Actors George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton matches that of the playwright...
...PRODUCERS. A wild, ad-lib energy that explodes in a series of sight gags and punch lines makes this saga of two sleazy stage producers (Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder) uproariously funny for at least half its running time, after which Mel Brooks the writer fails Mel Brooks the director by slipping into something sentimental...
...manager, treasurer, director and conductor of the ten-day Easter Music Festival at Salzburg, Herbert von Karajan, 59, takes on the most exhausting one-man musical spectacular since Richard Wagner ran Bayreuth. For the past month, however, the Austrian-born maestro has been flat on his back in hospitals in Munich and Paris, suffering first from flu, which developed into double pneumonia, and more recently from painful and incapacitating nerve inflammations in both legs. Though Von Karajan's recuperative powers are supposed to be second only to those of Lazarus, even his doctors are wondering whether he will...
Howard Hanson is a musical conservative who has probably done more than any other American composer to promote new and experimental music. For 40 years, before his retirement in 1964 as director of the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, he supervised the premières of nearly 2,000 pieces by more than 700-odd U.S. composers. Many of these compositions were in a harshly dissonant, far-out style for which Hanson himself had little liking. Nevertheless, he insisted, "Well-knit music that sounds like hell is still competent musicianship and deserves a hearing...
...George Champion of Chase Manhattan Bank decries "mass do-gooding at the expense of stockholders." Says Chairman Birny Mason Jr. of Union Carbide: "I'm afraid we're going through another phase of promises that will lead to disillusionment." Still, such analysts of the urban crisis as Director Pat Moynihan of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies (TIME cover, July 28) give corporations high marks for their active concern. "Business has reacted more openly and sensibly to the situation than any single segment of the community," says Moynihan. "Business has no commitments to fulfill...