Word: erik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agers silently gathered around several buses loaded with delegates. Someone threw a stone through a bus window, someone else heaved a beer bottle, and in a flash the scene turned into a full-scale riot. White-capped police used truncheons to subdue the antiCommunists, even roughed up Police Chief Erik Gabrielson (whom they failed to recognize in a business suit). Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko, a member of the Moscow delegation, was so upset by the anti-Red rioters that he rushed back to his floating hotel, the white-hulled Gruzia, and dashed off a frenzied poem called Sniveling Fascism, which...
Looking inwards, it should seize upon Raphael Demos, retiring Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity; Erik H. Erikson, professor of Human Development; and Perry G. E. Miller, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature. All three have vastly increased Harvard's reputation, a service for which Harvard is ordinarily grateful...
Less gymnastic than their title would suggest, Erik Satie's Trois Gymnopedies (1888) are pastoral melodies with an extremely simple accompaniment of strings and harp. But even in his most restrained mood, Satie could not resist a final playful tweak: the three pieces end on the "wrong" chord (subdominant); but nobody notices this joke any more, and the Trois Gymnopedies pass, to Satie's undoubted horror, as incorrigibly romantic...
...highlight of the program was a splendid take-off on the Salvation Army, revival singers, Texas preachers, and other primitive interpreters of the Gospel. Lee Hays as the properly bored but sympathetic faith healer, and Ronnie Gilbert as a sinful, boozing woman gone straight, played their parts to perfection. Erik Darling contributed a fine off-key, off-rhythm trumpet accompaniment...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Guitarist Andres Segovia and Dancers Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn appear with the Bell Telephone Orchestra. Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Spotlight on the top news story of the week...