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Draftsmanship came naturally to the Nuremberg-born goldsmith's son. As a boyhood apprentice, Dürer learned to control the sharp burin as it plowed ornamental-and indelible-lines across the rich metal. At 15, he got his father's permission to study art, and he turned his point to image making. Even before his death in 1528, Dürer's chop M., a reminder of his goldsmith's training, was known across Europe. To show the full range of his accomplishment, 150 drawings by him and his contemporaries have been assembled from...
...Munich Opera Festival singing the lead role in Hindemith's rarely performed Cardillac. Premiered in 1926, the opera -a starkly sketched exercise in early expressionism-is hardly everyone's cup of tea. Yet as interpreted by Director Rudolf Hartmann and Fischer-Dieskau, cast as a goldsmith who peddles his handiwork by day only to redeem it at night by killing off his customers, Cardillac proved the surprise hit of the month-long festival. Stable Serenade. At 40, Fischer-Dieskau is a comparative newcomer to the world's opera houses. Long the foremost interpreter of German lieder...
...Start in the Kitchen." The extra touches began with Founder L. G. (for Lauris Goldsmith) Treadway, who worked his way through Dartmouth ('08) in the college kitchen, became so fascinated with cooking that he abandoned law. Treadway first worked for a series of New England inns, then opened the first Treadway in 1912 at Williams College, where he persuaded college officials to let him run the alumni house as a public establishment. The inn is still operated by Treadway...
...system would prove a wedge for Government regulation of the entire economy, a group of businessmen led by General Motors Economist Stephen DuBrul in 1953 persuaded Defense Secretary Charles ("Engine Charlie") Wilson to halt work on it. But the work got under way again in 1959 after Professor Raymond Goldsmith of Yale urged the Government to push ahead, and business fears of the tables have turned to open-armed welcome with the realization that they are an invaluable aid. Forty-five other nations are now working on their own input-output tables...
There is a line in Goldsmith's Retaliation which goes "When they talked of their Raphael's, Corregio's and stuff, he shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff." This Arts Festival takes snuff...