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...Anouilh -and ennui. What is left, while faithful to the original in scenic form, has been trenchantly rewritten by one of the ablest theater minds in the U.S., and the result is intellectual theater at close to its best. The ideas that the drama deals in are among the grandest in the human range, and as they marshal and maneuver on the stage, the audience feels caught and carried in the icy passion of a superhuman chess game in which the stakes are life or death for more than Joan. Compared of course to the virile mace-work of George...
Native New Yorker Van Voorhis-his family goes back to the Dutch settlers-was a U.S. Naval Academy midshipman in the early '20s when his grandmother left him $100,000. Van quit the academy and went off to tour the world in the grandest manner possible. A year and a half later, he checked into a New York hotel with little but a full-dress suit to his name...
...either side? Nehru warned his countrymen before leaving home: "I'm not going to negotiate between any blocs on any issue, nor am I going to intervene in any issues." But it would have taken a man less vain than Nehru to resist the Soviet welcome, the grandest given to any foreigner within memory...
...calling for me," but all he seemed to notice at first was the speech she gave-as well he might: it was a paraphrase of one of his own sermons. Soon, however. "God just spun [him] around like a top and said, 'Peter -you idiot-this is My grandest plan for you' "; and so they were married. After a Cape Cod honeymoon, Peter received a call to the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., where his preaching of a "redblooded . . . bronzed, fearless" Christ brought young and old by incredible thousands to his church door...
...first line of defense of many U.S. symphony orchestras is manned by women. They are the determined ladies who establish "symphony work" as a prime social criterion, whose tea parties, meetings and fund campaigns often mean the difference between life and death for an orchestra. One of the grandest of all musical, grandes dames in the U.S. is Houston's Miss Ima Hogg,† seventyish daughter of Texas' wealthy Governor (1890-95) Jim Hogg. She reigns as an absolute empress, and Houston Junior Leaguers have learned that the only sure way to her is through the symphony. When...