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...seven years as dean of the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, expansive, flamboyant Dwight Allen, 44, worked miracles (TIME, Dec. 21, 1970). Demonstrating a genius for fund raising, he brought in a total of $15 million in federal and foundation grants. With a flair for innovation, he transformed the small, conservative segment of the state university into a flourishing but controversial school that concentrated on urban education and minority problems and encouraged a "do your own thing" attitude among students and faculty. Wearing colorful custom-tailored African shirts, he toured the country, making as many...
...slandering lawyer in Tiny Alice, the play that immediately followed Virginia Woolf, Albee no longer seemed able to invent any characters that possessed dramatic vigor. They all appeared to be suffering from acute spinal inertia and total mental ennui. Finally, he largely abandoned his strong suit, which was a flair for vituperatively explosive dialogue and bitchy humor. Instead, his characters have spoken for years now with intolerably stilted pomposity, as if they had wandered out of an unpublished work by some minor Victorian novelist...
...such music, the player must have a flawless ability to shape the form, then a knack for making embellishments sound both natural and exciting. Kipnis has both these talents in abundance. Indeed, it is doubtful whether any harpsichordist now performing can match his particular combination of formal restraint, interpretive flair and sheer energy. Certainly that was the case last week as Kipnis made a successful New York Philharmonic debut playing two diverse works under Conductor Pierre Boulez-Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and Falla's Harpsichord Concerto...
...Palace officials insist that Giscard's nocturnal wanderings involve nothing more adventurous than dropping in on old friends for a drink and a chat. They contend that his yearning to escape the pressures of office briefly is just a harmless aspect of his much-touted style naturel-the flair for informality that Giscard promised to bring to French politics...
...women as petulant screamers (Lesley Gore) or filigreed folkies (Judy Collins). Occasionally, women defied the image makers. Janis Joplin and Grace Slick escaped briefly from San Francisco psychedelia. But separated from their back-up bands, neither prospered for very long. Joplin turned to drugs, and Slick lost her creative flair...