Word: homegrown
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...when the city's Philharmonic Society gave its first public concert on Dec. 7. A large middle-class German population had brought cultivated tastes from abroad; the concert rooms and theaters were filled with touring opera companies on long visits, and there was an impressive roster of homegrown organizations. Indeed, two other Philharmonic societies had already come and gone. The first, founded in 1799, took part in George Washington's memorial services; it lasted until 1816; the second, put together in 1824, succumbed three years later, largely because a craze for masquerade balls had tied up most...
Nymphet-Mania. One reason for some of the harsh reviews may have been that the critics were too aware of the movie's American origin. The homegrown skill displayed in Bonnie and Clyde may seem strange to Americans; it is no surprise to Europeans. To an extent, the American film was discovered by the French, who see things in U.S. movies no one else saw before. The directors who created France's New Wave openly imitated such films from the American past as the westerns of John Ford, the adventure flicks of Howard Hawks, and B-level gangster...
...light artists were homegrown in psychedelic land. Most of them have tried their hand at forms of conventional painting or sculpture, but they are likely at the same time to have Ph.D.s in physics, to have worked as display artists or rocketry engineers. Among lumina's leading lights...
EARLY GERMAN OPERA FROM THE GOOSEMARKET (Angel). Opera in Germany in the early 1700s was dominated by the Italians, except in Hamburg, where a company on Goosemarket Street performed homegrown works such as Handel's Almira, Queen of Castile and The Proud, Fallen and Re-Elevated Croesus, by Reinhard Keiser, one of the most prolific opera composers of his day. A formal dance suite from Almira and several scenes from Croesus, along with excerpts from two other Goosemarket productions, are played by the Berlin Philharmonic, Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg conducting...
Endurance & Speed. Ferrari himself never goes to races, but twelve of his creations were entered in the Continental, including the car that won at Le Mans last year and a 1966 4.4-liter prototype. Then there was the homegrown Chevy-powered Chaparral II, which boasted such refinements as automatic transmission and a pedal-operated stabilizing fin. With Phil Hill, the ex-Grand Prix champion, at the wheel, the Chaparral turned in a 116-m.p.h. practice run, and more than one sportswriter picked...