Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said one: "I don't think one cat could do all that." The only reason he was sitting it out at home the night that 168 celebrities were attending the White House blowout for French Cultural Affairs Minister Andre Malraux, explained Columnist Leonard Lyons, 55, was that he had unwittingly written himself right off the guest list...
Over cocktails with French Ambassador Herve Alphand a few weeks earlier, the adroit name-dropper dropped into Al-phand's pocket a list of U.S. cultural leaders (among them: Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern) who had never been accorded the Legion d'Honneur. As White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. later told Lyons: "You were to have been invited, but the French ambassador suddenly brought in a long guest list-and it left no room for you." At Horizon House, a five-room cottage for the disabled at New York University's Institute of Physical Medicine...
...prize in the U.S., the Leventritt Award. His performance of Brahms's Concerto No. 2, a work laced with tranquil melodies and fiery passages, brought the audience to its feet for five minutes of applause. But the judges did not give the award to Block or anyone else. Leonard Bernstein, speaking for the judges, pointed out that contestants for the Leventritt do not compete against one another, but against a standard. Not even Block, he said, had measured up to the standard set by such previous winners as Van Cliburn, Malcolm Frager and Gary Graffman...
...Rudolf Serkin, Leonard Bernstein, George Szell, Rudolf Firkusny, Leopold Mannes, Nadia Reisenberg, Gary Graffman, Claude Frank, Gitta Gradova and Theodore Bloomfield...
...house party in Fiedler's masterpiece of fictional illness, Nude Croquet, the middle-aged guests decide to shuck their clothes and play croquet in the buff. In the peep show that follows, the readers see "bulges and creases and broken veins, bunions and scars and grizzled hair . . . Leonard, vaguely hermaphroditic, pudgy and white; Eva, her cross falling just where her pancake makeup gave way to the slightly pimpled pallor of her skin; Achsa, tallow-yellow and without breasts; Beatie, marked with the red griddle of her corseting and verging on shapelessness; Marvin, sallow and unmuscled beneath the lank black...