Word: eaton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggestion of Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of Government, Kearns read the 1912 Progressive Party and 1896 Populist Party platforms, which she said were much closer to the mood of the 1970's than more recent platforms...
...ambition that overreaches many professional companies. To all that, Indiana has now added an $11.3 million musical arts center. What better way to show off the new 1,460-seat theater than to put on an opera written by a faculty member? To wit: Heracles, Composer John Eaton's 3½-hour treatment of Sophocles' legendary Greek hero...
...Eaton's epic is bristlingly serial and uncompromisingly cerebral. "It finished off eight centuries of musical technique, at least for me," says Eaton. For many listeners Heracles may simply have finished off serialism, suggesting that little more can be done to make that strait-laced and formulistic method of sticking notes together work in operatic terms. Eaton's grasp of musical technique is distinctly impressive, but his sense of theater is so undeveloped it verges on naivete. Heracles' characters discourse at enormous length but never with enough musical depth to make themselves or their arguments convincing. Unlike...
...Originally, Hughes demanded that no publicity be given the project until 30 days after the final manuscript had been received and approved. But word seeped out that Robert Eaton, a sometime Hollywood novelist and sixth husband of Lana Turner, was about to publish a book on Hughes. In a handwritten, nine-page letter dated Nov. 17, 1971, Hughes told McGraw-Hill Book Co. President Harold McGraw Jr. that he had nothing to do with Eaton's project and that it was now all right to announce Irving's book. A version of Eaton's work on Hughes is being published...
...ANDREW EATON JUDITH REHMER Cambridge, Mass...