Word: gems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard Strauss, called Arabella. Completed 23 years after Der Rosenkavalier, in 1932, it proved to be a pale reflection of that bouquet, but it had some of its typical ingredients: 1) a text by Strauss's friend, Poet Hugo von Hofmannstahl, with its share of Viennese titillation and Gemütlichkeit; 2) lovely melodies for the high voices, including some, so melting that the music seemed to run across the stage and drown the prompter; 3) a plush orchestra filled with lavender sighs and so much busy prattle that it recalled the old lady who did not know what...
Love & Deepened Voices. Not all French women writers are as fiercely intellectual as Simone de Beauvoir or as sensationally sexy as the kiss-and-write girls. Louise de Vilmorin, 48, author of the brilliant little tragicomic gem, Madame De (TIME, Oct. 11), writes books that are always impeccably elegant, and 47-year-old Renée Massip's La Regente is a sensitive psychological study of an unhappy girl and a domineering mother. French women writers, as diverse in personality as in subject matter, range from glamorous Silvia Monfort, 30, whose Droit Chemin is about a professor who tries...
...patriarchs, decided, after celebrating several past birthdays on Dec. 22, that he had occasionally been hazy about the exact hour of his birth. "I was really born on the 23rd," said he. His family then cooperated in helping him turn 92 on that day. Asked to pass on a gem of wisdom to his juniors, Mack cogitated briefly, then in his best oracular manner rumbled : "People are living too fast...
...following four pages. They have in common what art critics like to call "monumentality": when seen in reproduction, they are imagined to be much bigger than actuality; likewise, when seen in the eye of memory they look larger than their true size. Each merits the overworked word "gem," for each diffuses the sparkle of ages from a surface hardly more than a hand's span...
...Heir Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, 44, owner of a 650-acre plantation on St. John, small (12,200 acres), unspoiled (only one hotel) gem of the Virgin Islands, offered his land as a site for the first U.S. National Park in the Caribbean. Holder of options on about half the island, Conservationist Rockefeller hoped to pick them up, eventually hand over about two-thirds of St. John...