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Her drawing teacher was Kandinsky, a former Moscow economics professor who had left Russia with his young wife to escape the stifling atmosphere of the Czarist regime. Since he had a substantial income, Kandinsky treated art as a hobby. He was a gifted and elegant dilettante with a penchant for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gabriele | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

LEONTYNE PRICE, 34, remains the most naturally gifted-and potentially the greatest-soprano now singing. Her voice, which has been compared to a Stradivarius because of its violinlike legato line, is as warm and as opulent as any in opera; her handling of it is a wonder of intelligence sharpened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Supreme Sopranos | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

Still, the snatches of backstair gossip are flying--the same sort of rumors that credited Bowles with being one of the few White House advisers who was right about the Cuban invasion fiasco. Certainly the circumstances under which Bowles left are suspicious enough to arouse the concern of all who...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Special Adviser | 12/6/1961 | See Source »

I warmly recommend Apollonian Poems to you. They span the growth of a gifted, highly intelligent poet who may not always strike you as successful, but will almost never fail to arouse your interest and please you with his technical competence.

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: Apollonian Poems | 11/28/1961 | See Source »

The Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. One of Britain's most gifted young playwrights plants two brothers and an aging tramp in a junk-cluttered room, where they become entwined in an ambiguous relationship of spite, pride, dependence and rejection that richly epitomizes the wayward condition of man.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 24, 1961 | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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