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...Gloria K. Watson, R.N. La Mirada, Calif...
...affection ran her own class a few years back. Lord decided to teach Expos because she was distressed over the College's inability to train undergraduates in basic prose. She remembers that her most successful sessions included lectures from professional writers who shared their experiences with her neophyte authors. Gloria Emerson, who wrote moving accounts of the Vietnam war, brought many students to tears, Lord remembers, by describing the utter tragedy of her subject. "You have to figure out some way to move the kids," Lord says...
...Hesselberg, Douglas made his Broadway debut in 1928. In 1931 he married Actress Helen Gahagan, who later became a noted political activist and Congresswoman from California. After establishing himself as a suave, romantic leading man during the 1930s and 1940s by playing opposite such stars as Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Gloria Swanson (Tonight or Never) and Joan Crawford (A Woman's Face), Douglas shifted to first-rate character portrayals in such films as Billy Budd (1962), The Americanization of Emily (1964) and I Never Sang for My Father (1970). Douglas, who had just completed his 77th film, Ghost Story, which...
Along with classics, the company has unveiled many new ballets, chiefly by Ashton and current Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, 51. On this trip the Royal brought three works new to U.S. audiences: Ashton's Rhapsody, a glittering display originally created for Mikhail Baryshnikov; MacMillan's Gloria, a dark ode to the generation killed in the Great War, set to the bright strains of Poulenc; and Isadora, also by MacMillan, a tasteless, breast-baring melodrama about Modern Dance Pioneer Isadora Duncan, with a pastiche score by Richard Rodney Bennett. In addition, the Royal performed, for the first time...
...Bernie Cornfeld, whose flamboyant style ridiculed the low profile of international business; Governor Jerry Brown, the Jesuit-Zen candidate who flouted the rules of politics; and George Plimpton, the upper-class New Yorker whose characterizations as a dilettante in professional sports disguised a professional writer. But what of Gloria Vanderbilt, who declassed herself to become the Duchess of Denim, and of the homosexual parodists in entertainment and fashion...