Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poulenc wrote Gloria, as he writes all of his music, in his 16th century country home in Touraine, because "like wine, which can grow only in its own soil, I can compose only in France." Originally, he intended it for one of his favorite singers, Italian Soprano Rosanna Carteri ("She has a voice with lipstick and powder"), but at the work's premiere the principal part was sung by U.S. Negro Soprano Adele Addison, who so impressed Poulenc that he interrupted a rehearsal to shout: "Parfait! Parfait! La perfection!" Poulenc plans to write a new opera for La Scala...
...school makes you think rather than feel," Chadwick taught himself, and approaches his art much as an action painter would. He tries to suspend conscious thought in developing his forms because "the subconscious has the larger vocabulary." He works rapidly with wire and metal rods, allows his construction to grow almost as if it had a goal of its own. If the construction does not please him, he can correct or discard; if it does, he fills it in like flesh over bones with a plaster made of gypsum and iron powder...
...Angeles cabbie (three rear-end collisions in four weeks). What started the Berman spiral upward was a job with Chicago's talented, improvising Compass Players (TIME, March 21), where, alongside his friends Mike Nichols and Elaine May, he developed his own style of comedy and began to grow into a great performer. He loathes being compared to other comedians, particularly the "sick" ones. Says he of the sickest of them all: "I don't dislike him, but people needed Lenny Bruce for the same reason they needed Hitler...
...PAYMENTS. As one answer to the problem, Dillon sees "no reason" for continuing the special tax incentives that the Government has used to encourage industry to go abroad to Europe, thinks that any change should retain them for firms investing only in underdeveloped or developing countries. To help exports grow, he favors continued pressure against restrictions imposed on dollar imports...
Last Saturday, Stan Doten warmed up for the K. of C. with a 62 ft., 9 in. weight grow under simulated meet conditions competing against world record holder Flackus at Tufts tomorrow afternoon, should get out around...