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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hervey s, the trip to the mainland was a 63-hour nightmare. The convicts, brutalized by life on Isabela, tore through the yacht with savage greed. They gorged themselves, fouled the cabins, stole everything they could find from cash to toothbrushes. Only after one of the wild-eyed escapees broke into the Herveys' cabin was a semblance of order restored. A young convict called a ship's meeting, delivered a ringing oration pledging that he and his comrades would mend their ways if their escape succeeded. He got his fellow convicts to sing Ecuador's national anthem...
...rate actress on screen and off, Maria, 32. parried most of the newsmen's thrusts with ease, sooner or later got her listeners into her own frame of reference. Her greatest vice at the moment, by her own confession: "Intensity." The cure she seeks: "Harmony. I want to find peace within myself and the world in which I live. I want to grow, not by design, but as the flower grows. Peace is art. Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes...
After Bartok. Suchon's work was premiered in 1949, but was rarely seen by Western critics until its production this month at East Berlin's State Opera. It will be staged in Belgrade, Budapest, and in the Soviet Union, eventually may find its way West. The opera's plot concerns the trials of a Slovakian peasant girl named Katrena whose lover is found murdered in a forest clearing. At first suspected, Katrena is later cleared and promptly marries an earlier suitor named Ondrej. When she bears a child ahead of schedule, Ondrej flies into a jealous rage...
Bull & Sympathy. Though he retains his old-world courtliness ("I ask your indulgence." he will say in an argument with a brash undergraduate), he is as much at home in a bull session as any student. He is deferential in class, but his professors find him an invaluable stimulus. In a sense, he has become the kindly uncle of the whole university, feeding on the youthfulness about him while giving in return the benefit of his 70 years of experience. "He likes young people," says King's Rector Charles Bosanquet, "and has sympathy for them...
Phyllis was promptly invited to come home and find a good architect. "I didn't think of anything else for 2½ months," she says. She went to see a friend on the staff of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, was sent down the hall to Architect Philip Johnson, then the M.M.A.'s director of architecture. There the trail to Mies began...