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...after the death of his first wife, who was 18 years his senior, he married a comely blonde music student, Sarolta, who was 56 years his junior. She acted as intermediary and hostess for Kodály who, as the dean of European composers and Hungary's most revered citizen, received an endless stream of visitors in his Budapest apartment during his last years. A shy, slight, spade-bearded man with the face of an El Greco apostle, he admonished people to "go to the peasants. Hear them sing. You can't learn from musical scores only...
COLISEUM (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 2 of "Moscow State Circus," taped in Minsk, with Dinah Shore as hostess. The seven acts include the famed Dudykchau Teeterboard Tumblers, the Potchernikova Bears, the Berikovi Aerial Rockets...
...tterdämmerung. Some are embarrassed to death-mostly civilians. Lady Molly Jeavons' town house cops a packet; the hostess goes with it, and so does Priscilla Tolland. In fact, a head count shows that six previous survivors of the Powell epic are killed off in this novel. In Powell's war, only the rotters flourish-notably Kenneth Widmerpool, whose humorless egomania and bounderish one-upmanship have won him critical status as one of the great comic creations of modern English fiction. He is now on the make as a staff major, a virtuoso of bumf...
...Obligation. Girls tend to buy their own beers at first, but generally expect the man to pay after the conversation begins, although, as one airline hostess notes, "When someone starts paying for your drinks, it's a kind of obligation." If both parties fail to turn each other on, the girl thinks nothing of paying her bill, moving to another table and hoping for better luck. Even when the man turns out to be "absolutely gorgeous" (it can happen: Denver's Carriage Inn, open four years, claims 35 marriages), the most a girl is expected to yield...
...Seminole Club. Visitors can also swim in Mrs. Post's pool, at her private beach, or at the hyper-exclusive Bath and Tennis Club. At night, there is often a square dance, and though the music stops at 11 p.m., guests are free to borrow one of the hostess' limousines and cruise into town for frugging at O'Hara's until dawn...