Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frank Sinatra, 51, met Sammy Davis Jr., 41, for a few drinks at Frascati's Restaurant in Beverly Hills, and the boys got to talking about their unhappy marriages. Before the week was out, their pressagents were jawing about it too: Frank and Mia Farrow, 22, are separating after 16 months of childless marriage; Sammy and May Britt, 31, are washed up after seven years and three children, two of them adopted...
Last week, to his astonishment, he lost. The jury unanimously found Exit obscene. In so doing, it crisply ignored the testimony of a number of literary lights who contended that the book was a near masterpiece that denounced the gutter by wallowing in it. Critic Frank Kermode, former co-editor of Encounter, argued that he "was horrified by it, but impressed by its novelty, originality and moral power. Dealing as it does with the lower depths of a great city, it is very much in the tradition of Dickens." Since Selby offered a minutely detailed chronicle of unremitting violence, perversion...
Complete Picture. The main obstacle to progress, says the museum's curator, Sir Frank Francis, is "the intractable nature of the building itself." Despite cramped facilities and a woefully inadequate budget (?4 million a year), he has tried to put a greater variety of the museum's vast materials before the public. In one imaginative display he arranged finds from the museum's 1963-64 New Guinea expedition into an attractive mix of the utensils of everyday life with elaborate objets d'art. "We endeavor to give a complete picture of a culture-not only...
...fair number of things done," says Sir Frank, are "small in comparison with the need for space." He admits that "no one nowadays creating the institution afresh would make a library and museum in one building." But he also insists that "books and antiquities illuminate each other" and is determined to reinstate the plans for the new library. Meanwhile, for want of simple shelter, one of the great caches of world civilization stays in semiseclusion...
...Shoe. Yet there could be no better proof that modern music still has something to offer Bream,and he to it, than his latest RCA album, 20th Century Guitar. In compositions by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Frank Martin, Hans Werner Henze and Reginald Brindle, he weaves nimbly through some fierce technical obstacles, catching the harshness of the contemporary idiom while losing none of the guitar's characteristic aplomb and lucidity. Best of all is his performance of Nocturnal, a 19-minute mood piece written especially for him in 1963 by Benjamin Britten. Spiraling through a set of variations that end rather...