Word: leonards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
BEGINNING AGAIN by Leonard Woolf. 263 pages. Harcourf, Brace & World...
...Swedish holiday in 1911, Leonard Woolf was confronted on a remote beach by a naked Swede, who asked, "Can you divorce your wife in England if she is insane?" Woolf was used to having the Swedes ask many questions, but this one plainly never crossed his mind. In this third volume of his memoirs, "1911 to 1918," Woolf discusses his wife Virginia's sporadic lunacy with candor and total tenderness. He was never afraid of Virginia Woolf, nor is he now of her memory, but seems, rather, to be still almost boyishly in love with...
This coming season Steinberg will take a year's sabbatical from his Pittsburgh post to conduct 48 concerts with the New York Philharmonic while Leonard Bernstein is on his sabbatical. Steinberg will also make his debut with the Metropolitan Opera, conducting 24 performances of three operas. "I have some real killers arranged for New York," he says gleefully, referring to Berlioz' rarely performed Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale, a work for 180 musicians that will require the West Point Band as well as the Philharmonic, Leon Kirchner's Second Piano Concerto, and the American premi...
...Alcohol. Occasionally, a Congolese emerges who can fight better for his country than any mercenary. One such is Colonel Leonard Mulamba of the government forces, commander of the garrison that fought off the bloody rebel invasion of Bukavu and gave the Congolese army something it could be proud of for a change. Mulamba, a tough disciplinarian who got his training as an adjutant in the Belgian Congo Force Publique, last week tried to turn his victory into a springboard for reform...
...bringing a grand piano with them. The creative arts have played a central role at the college ever since. The girls are bored with traditional music, preferring to hear concerts by Jazzman Dave Brubeck, or to put on their own performances of Virgil Thomson's Medea or Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti. Bold, colorful abstract painting, sculpture, ceramics and mosaics by students and faculty are everywhere on campus, reflecting Demers' concept that art "is the flesh of every aspect of life." In drama as in the fine arts, the results are vigorous and venturesome...