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...Richard Wilbur. The Bijou Singers emitted a chorus of eerie wails, echoing such Yevtushenko lines as: "The stars in your flag, America, are bullet holes." The climax of the spectacle came, however, when Yevtushenko read Bombs for Balalaikas, composed overnight in protest against the bombing of Impresario Sol Hurok's office earlier in the week. Threats of a similar bombing of Yevtushenko's reading had already sent police scurrying to search the Forum's audience...
Never Again. Incendiary bombs had exploded almost simultaneously in two Manhattan office buildings. One burst in Hurok's New York headquarters, which was immediately engulfed in dense black smoke that killed a young secretary and incapacitated nine others, including Hurok, who was briefly hospitalized and then released. The second was detonated in the office of Columbia Artists, another talent agency, which was luckily almost empty; most of the employees had not yet arrived for work. Within minutes, anonymous callers to the Associated Press and NBC claimed that the bombs had been set to protest "the deaths and imprisonment...
...disclaim responsibility for last week's crime. From Israel, where he is trying to form a worldwide J.D.L., Rabbi Meir Kahane called the bombings "insane." The acting head of J.D.L., New York Attorney Bertram Zweibon, denied that there had ever been a J.D.L. plan to bomb the Hurok and Columbia offices, both of which have booked Russian talent for the U.S. Hurok, 83, has long been an object of the league's enmity. As the foremost importer of Russian talent, he introduced the Bolshoi Ballet, the Moiseyev dancers and Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, among others, to American audiences...
...behind-schedule glance into La Grenouille, and Lyons is off to the Cote Basque: Hurok's come and gone, but there's Artur Rubinstein, who puffs a long Havana and says his wife cooked Polish chicken for an after-concert gathering the night before. Out comes Lyons' black lizardskin notebook and tiny gold pencil. A few cryptic notes, and he Ts off to Le Pavilion and, finally, the Four Seasons. The latter has a coat hook marked MR. LYONS. A coat, is already there. "Who's been hanging their coat on my hook?" In his consternation...
...goal set for the company in 1940 by its founder, Architect Richard Pleasant. Since then, however, Ballet Theater has all too frequently strayed off on a series of unrewarding paths. After Pleasant entered the U.S. Army during World War II, the company came under the direction of Impresario Sol Hurok, who attempted to re-create it as a new "Ballet Russe," with an endless parade of show boating guest stars. In the mid-'50s, Ballet Theater embarked on a dreary succession of new dances, most of which were forgotten when the curtain came down. In addition to continual confusion...