Word: lifework
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...brother David, 39, a lawyer who helped Rush assemble The Way Things Ought to Be. "My dad, more than my brother, was the black sheep. He was a maverick, the lone, passionate voice of conservatism. My brother's success is a kind of vindication of my father's lifework in politics." If there is a difference between the lawyer with the booming voice and his radio-star son, the family says, it is in Rush's impish, rowdy sense of humor. "I don't want to brag," Millie says, "but I say he got his sense from...
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 93 to 104 "Salomon") (London Philharmonic, Eugen Jochum conducting; Deutsche Grammophon; 6 LPs; $33). Individually, these symphonies delight unceasingly with their diversity, wit, bounteous melody and, at times, power. Collectively, they are the crown of Haydn's lifework. Though particular tastes may lean, say, to SzelFs "Surprise" or Bernstein's "London," this is by far the best integral set available of the complete dozen. At 71, Jochum eloquently states the case for interpretative orthodoxy...
...Ballet Society. This became the New York City Ballet in 1948, when the City Center, New York's cultural arm organized under Mayor Fiorello La-Guardia, offered the company a home in its theater, a converted Shriners' Temple. Balanchine and Kirstein had found the setting for their lifework...
Kirstein's lifework, as it happens, takes in a good deal more than dance. A poet, art critic and onetime novelist, he seems to have an aesthetic Midas touch that produces quality in virtually everything he takes up. At Harvard he established and edited the magazine Hound and Horn, which from 1927-34 was among the most distinguished literary journals. The Harvard Society of Contemporary Art, which he co-founded in 1927, became the prototype for New York's Museum of Modern...
Died. John S. Sumner, 94, for 35 years quixotic guardian of New York City's morals; of pneumonia; in Floral Park, N.Y. As executive secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice between 1915 and 1950, Sumner made smut chasing his lifework. He fought to have James Joyce's Ulysses banned, and helped send Mae West to jail for directing a 1926 play called...