Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Notorious Landlady, with Kim Novak and Jack Lemmon. Gilbert and Sullivan fans will enjoy the Pirates of Penzance band concert at the end of this film-about 10:50, to be safe...
MARQUIS DE SADE, SELECTED LETTERS, edited by Gilbert Lély. From prison and the lunatic asylum, the Marquis wrote to his mother-in-law, his wife and his valet, hoping that someone would understand. These letters make a human figure of the ogre whose actions and fantasies turned his name into an eponym for the pain that, to some, gives pleasure...
...Gilbert Highet, head of the classics department at Columbia University, recalls that he was particularly busy that winter. Then a professor of Greek and Latin, he had taken on a new course, and night after night he sat at his desk composing his lectures. Meanwhile, his wife sat on the couch near by, quietly scribbling away with a pencil. One evening she stopped, drew a firm line on the paper and said with a sigh of relief, "There. That's done. Would you like to read it?" Highet said rather vaguely, "Yes, of course." He started to read...
Writing to Ravel. She is, in short, the acknowledged queen of spy story writers, and a handsome queen of great charm to boot. Possessed of a Scottish burr and a Glasgow University master of arts degree, she married Gilbert Highet, an Oxford don, in 1932. Five years later, Highet was invited to lecture at Columbia, and the Highets moved to New York with their three-year-old son Keith, now 32 and a Manhattan lawyer. The Highets were so taken with Columbia and New York that they decided to remain; they became citizens...
...flute. Never in history has "the metal nightingale" been so highly esteemed as a solo instrument; never in one period has it been played by so many virtuoso performers. In the U.S. and Europe, there are at least 30 first-rate flutists-London's Geoffrey Gilbert and William Bennett, Manhattan's John Wummer and Samuel Baron, Rochester's Joseph Mariano, Boston's Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Detroit's Albert Tipton, Marlboro's Louis Moyse-and among them there are four who may well belong among the great flute players of all time...