Word: galas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Photographers swarmed around Mia Farrow as her glamorous André Previn conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Jack Benny played Mendelssohn over the phone. Still, Isaac Stern more than held his own at his 50th birthday celebration. His rendition of the Brahms violin concerto was the hit of a gala at the Hollywood Bowl. At supper afterward, his observations ranged from philosophy ("Music is more important than musicians. The music goes on and on. All we can do is serve it honestly") to a pun inspired by Ogden Nash ("I leave no tone unSterned...
...Radical Chic that prompts the Carter Burdens "to groove, as they say, with the Young Lords and other pet primitives from Harlem and Spanish Harlem and at the same time fit into all the old main line events such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 100th anniversary gala and be photographed doing the new boogaloo...
Dunster House filled up yesterday with 180 Harvard men, their wives, and 25 widows celebrating their 50th class reunion. Never before has the Class of '20 held a reunion on a grand scale. Although the 25th reunion is normally a gala event, the Class of '20 missed out. Paul McElroy '20, chairman of the reunion, explained, "We got screwed. Mr. Hitler...
...high point of the Lenin gala, it was Brezhnev who commanded the brightest spotlight and biggest headlines. Before an audience including 66 foreign delegations, Brezhnev rose in the Kremlin's modernistic Palace of Congresses to deliver a three-hour, 82-page speech. (Kosygin followed the next day with a talk that lasted all of ten minutes.) Pausing only to sip cherry-flavored water, Brezhnev spoke self-confidently on a wide range of subjects, taking a tough but carefully qualified attitude. Nations fighting against imperialism, he said, will always have in Russia "a reliable and true friend." Enlightened circles in "bourgeois...
...this sense of tragedy is often overshadowed. Less than a year after the six-day war, I attended the gala 20th Independence Day military parade in Jerusalem and found the whole country going wild over captured tanks. Soon afterwards I went to a movie depicting the six-day war in bloody, tragic, and all too real terms; the Israelis loved...