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...SYMPHONIES (2 LPs: Deutsche Grammophon). The modern symphony, says Henze, tends to be either "a replica, an elegy or an echo," and he illustrates the point with his work, which is reminiscent of Stravinsky. The 40-year-old composer's symphonies are nonetheless enjoyable and full of theatrical flair, as might be expected from a man who has written such successful operas as King Stag and Elegy for Young Lovers. Here the first three works, dating from his early 20s, provide atmosphere but no action. The fourth is richer, unwinding in one movement from gentle plonks and smoothly flowing...
...practice session and in his excitement cracked his head on a ledge protruding from a wall and collapsed against the Steinway. Revived, he refused a bandage for the one-inch gash in his forehead and, bloody but unbowed, trudged off to play with a driving intensity and the pyrotechnical flair of a young Horowitz...
Life among the humanoids of outer space-if such ever come to light-could not be more remote from the modern world than the bizarre and ceremonious existence of Louis XIV. With learning and flair, Nancy Mitford, the biographer of Voltaire and Madame de Pompadour, employs an elegant and aphoristic style to match the complexity and splendor of her subject: the building of Versailles, and its principal inhabitant, the Sun King, revered as a demigod by his 20 million subjects...
...member of the go-go generation of the space age, it is not difficult to see why the Kennedys are more popular than Johnson. They have flair, charm, a witty intensity, dedication to their country, and, Bugs Bunny to the contrary, we would rather hear that rapid-fire New England accent than that twangy Texas drawl preaching at us. Johnson is square, folksy and dullsville, sounding just like dozens of boring politicians from the past. The Kennedys are bright and new; they're with it. So are their in-laws: Jackie still commands more newsprint than Luci, cum wedding...
...Fairness & Equality." For all his civic zeal and his personal flair for the good life on a 200-acre Connecticut estate and at his Florida mansion, Gimbel was more than anything else a shrewd merchant. He was hardly out of the University of Pennsylvania and into the Philadelphia Gimbels store before he was pushing drastic changes on his father and six uncles. The family business had started in Vincennes, Ind., in 1842. The Gimbel brothers built bigger stores in Milwaukee and Philadelphia, but "Bernie" insisted that they move to New York, where the real action was. He picked...