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...tapped his fingers nervously against his cheek; occasionally he nodded his head rhythmically in time with the music. In the whole of his productive career, remarked Soviet Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, he had "never heard so many of my works performed in so short a period." This year's Edinburgh Festival was offering no fewer than 25 of his works in three weeks, including six of the symphonies, eight quartets, two concertos. Western observers got their best chance yet to re-evaluate the achievement of the man who remains one of the most patently gifted and persistently disappointing of modern...
...Gift is a U.S. entry in the 1962 film festivals at Vancouver, Edinburgh, Venice. It is an impeccable selection...
...current boarder: Prince Charles, whose father, the Duke of Edinburgh, is Gordonstoun's most famous...
First he found his name listed on the program of a forthcoming Edinburgh writers' conference, then he got a letter saying that he was expected to appear. From his retreat at Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva, Novelist Vladimir Nabokov, 63, sent his answer in the form of a letter to the London Times. "In the same list," said the strongly antileftist Russian émigré who left his homeland in 1919, "I find several writers whom I respect but also some others-such as Ilya Ehrenburg, Bertrand Russell and J.P. Sartre-with whom I would not consent...
...theology seemed to be at the heart of the presbytery's action, the immediate cause was the personality of lean, intense Stuart Merriam. Born in Schenectady, Merriam, a bachelor, graduated from Toronto's Knox College and acquired a doctorate from New College in Edinburgh. His first call, in 1957, was to the First Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth, Va., a rundown, impoverished church with a congregation of 500. Merriam doubled the church's property, added 100 parishioners to the congregation, put on an impressive range of new youth activities-and began to create a reputation for unorthodoxy. Although...