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Meanwhile, the din at the Grand Canyon seems to be growing louder. Hikers claim that the thwack-thwack and droning of aircraft echo constantly through the canyon. During a five-hour walk from an overlook known as Hermit's Rest to a station near Cope's Butte, one observer counted 16 helicopters, 36 fixed- wing planes and twelve jets. The constant barrage yielded few moments of uninterrupted serenity and nothing resembling hermitism. "They remind me of a bunch of little gnats, just swarming all around," says Sharon Galbreath, who chairs the Grand Canyon branch of the Sierra Club. Concurs Fred...
Would that the opening night's performance had been worthy of both the moment and the surroundings. Instead, it was prosaically conducted by Wolf-Dieter Hauschild and, with the exception of Bass-Baritone Theo Adam's noble Hermit, provincially sung by an all East European cast. The Freischutz production further suffered from Joachim Herz's relentlessly proletarian staging. The first great German romantic opera and a major influence on Wagner, Freischutz is the story of a forester, Max, who almost falls into the devil's clutches trying to regain his lost marksmanship and win the hand of his beloved Agathe...
Once one of the world's most visible leaders, Begin now lives like a hermit in a 3 1/2 room apartment on Zemach Street, two blocks from the home of his son Benyamin. He sees his three children (the third, Leah, works as a ground hostess for El Al), nine grandchildren and a few old friends, but no one else. He spends his days reading and talking on the telephone, which he often answers himself. An Israeli diplomat who recently called his home found him well informed and alert...
Protestants and Catholics are thriving in the "Hermit Kingdom...
...some daringly "literary" dialogue and fashions a full portrait of Gowan, who was a supporting character in the novel. But Reuben's prize jackanapes is Tom Conti. This delightful English actor (TV's The Norman Conquests) uses all his honed tools-the dimples, the fluty voice, the hermit-crab walk, the little-boy eyes-to steal every scene just by being in it. Petty and poetic, desperate and delightful, Conti's Gowan is the funniest portrayal of a down-on-his-art genius since Alec Guinness's Gulley Jimson in The Horse's Mouth...