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...Golden Boy and Waiting for Lefty, William Saroyan's My Heart's in the Highlands and Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-prizewinning hospital drama Men in White. Its members included Actors John Garfield, Frances Farmer, Morris Carnovsky, Franchot Tone and Lee J. Cobb, Directors-to-Be Elia Kazan and Sidney Lumet, Theorists and Teachers Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner...
...gathered in Washington last week would have flattered any visiting head of state. But the guests, including the President and Nancy Reagan, were paying tribute to national leaders of the arts, not politics. The sixth annual Kennedy Center honorees for lifetime achievement-Dancer-Choreographer Katherine Dunham, 73, Director Elia Kazan, 74, Singer Frank Sinatra, 68, Actor Jimmy Stewart, 75, and Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, 87-were presented with the rainbow-ribboned medals during a gala black-tie reception and special performance. Said Sinatra: "I'm way up in the air. This is the most coveted award...
...planning at Catholic University of America, showed slides of the future as envisioned in the past. The "ideal cities" of Leonardo da Vinci or Etienne-Louis Boullée, although devoid of people, were at least images of fantastic beauty. The modern future, as imagined by Antonio Sant Elia in 1914, Ludwig Hilberseimer in 1928 and Le Corbusier in 1934, has a nightmarish, totalitarian quality, akin to George Orwell's 1984 foreboding of a boot in the face. It seems incredible that many of the most talented and renowned designers in the Aspen tent had once believed...
Bork and D'Elia spent a day hiding from prowling Soviet helicopter gunships, and a night observing the battle from the top of a mud-walled house. But as Soviet forces came nearer they decided to return to Pakistan having spent five days in Afghanistan. After resting in Peshawar for three' days, they returned to the United States...
...With anti-aircraft missiles they [muhajedeen] can win in a year," said D' Elia...