Word: impresarios
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...Irish slang. And to scarper is what the young Brendan Behan must often have dreamed of doing in the six years he spent soberly behind bars, rather than convivially touring them. He put those dreams to good use in this merry and murderous mock-suspense story about a professional impresario of escapes at work in the underworld of Dublin, and Paris...
...real lesson was that both ailing orchestras are one-man bands. The Philharmonia is totally the creature of Impresario Walter Legge, just as the Royal Philharmonic was created by the late Sir Thomas Beecham "to maintain my reputation." Deprived of Sir Thomas' leadership, the Royal Philharmonic skidded so severely that many of its key players have jumped ship, and critics agree that it has long since jettisoned its artistic claim to the coveted Royal of its title...
Many of these programs were dreamed up by Don Benedict, a burly, energetic United Church of Christ minister who has been impresario of the society's operations since 1960. A graduate of Albion College in Michigan and Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Benedict served two penitentiary terms during World War II for failing to register for the draft. Eventually he found his ardent pacificism giving way to a conviction that the Allied cause was just, and he ended up the war as an Army sergeant on Iwo Jima. After the war, Benedict was one of the founders...
...Catholic Ed asked the New York archdiocese to put in a word, and off he flew to tape a carefully supervised 18-minute session in the Dominican monastery near Waterloo, Belgium. "As a Catholic and a gentleman, I wouldn't argue with them," said TV's top impresario. "They ran the show." The fee? "No money," said the Mother Prioress, "but we have a mission in the Congo. Would it be possible to send a heavy-duty Jeep with rain curtains?" Ed is out shopping for the most waterproof Willys he can find...
...Church of the Middle Ages consecrated all art to God's service-a precedent that the Rev. William Bell Glenesk thinks has a lot of validity today. In the manner of an ecclesiastical impresario, he incorporates everything from jazz bands to barefoot modern dancers in his freewheeling, experimental services at the Spencer Memorial Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn Heights...