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That resilience is apparent in every Fox endeavor. In 1956 she outmaneuvered her two fellow partners, both men, for control of the Lyric. "In the end I was the most powerful," she recalls with characteristic bluntness. In a field short on long runs, Fox has not only exceeded Rudolf Bing's 22-year reign at the Metropolitan Opera but made the Lyric by far the longest-lasting company in Chicago's rich operatic history...
While the Fellows ponder, the Development Office plans and plots. Although Harvard investments yield more than most charitable institutions' portfolios, the endowment is plummeting in real value. Harvard will probably announce a major capital drive sometime next year, the first such endeavor since...
...FIRST TRIP to Saigon in 1962 as a reporter for the New York Times, David Halberstam saw the American effort in Vietnam as a worthwhile endeavor. The war, he says in his notes in The Best and the Brightest, seemed to be a test of two political systems in a political war, and he preferred "our system." Admitting his failure, the failure of the press and many others at the time to see the atrocities the United States government would commit in Southeast Asia, Halberstam arrived at a different conclusion by 1962--that our handling of Vietnam was doomed...
...Mays-all in the name of journalistic curiosity and publishable profit. "Ernest Hemingway once said that my daydreams were the dark side of the moon of Walter Mitty," says Plimpton, 50. "I agree. It's nightmarish, these sports. They are painful, not joyful." Plimpton's latest joyless endeavor is race-car driving. He is revving up a book about the track and plans to get the feel of the pit by competing in the Toyota Pro Celebrity Match Race in Watkins Glen, N.Y., on Oct. 2. Does he think he has any talent at the wheel? "You need...
...that Kirchner sought a style to express. "Developing a calligraphic style is just as difficult as learning to walk," Kirchner wrote. A drawing such as his large Nude on a Bed (1908), one of the highlights of the Bergen collection, shows that the search for style was a conscious endeavor, involving constant formal training. The work, in charcoal over pencil outline, seems a careful and fairly conventional life-study until one looks more closely at the way in which Kirchner is defining form. The legs and feet are oddly arresting, because one can see a purer, simpler from emerging...