Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Anderson (TIME, Dec. 22). But Dodd continued to press action against the newsmen for having conspired in the stealing of some of his private documents. It was those documents that Pearson and Anderson had used in the columns that first brought Dodd's financial indiscretions to light. Dodd figured that they had been obtained illegally, and therefore he was entitled to damages for all that had happened subsequently. Last week U.S. District Judge Alexander Holtzoff agreed, ruled that Dodd could ; recover, and ordered a jury to determine how much...
Your Own Thing tosses off Shakespeare's calculated sexual confusions with jaunty lightheartedness. The songs are deft adaptations of rock rhythm. But the principal light-and-power supply of the show is a loose-jointed, lemur-eyed young lady named Leland Palmer, who as Viola shows that she can mug a laugh out of thin air, detonate a song and dance like a rag doll in a washing machine...
...decided to cut down on performing and devote more time to composing. Last week he sat in the Wilton, Conn., glass-and-stone house that he built four years ago, tinkering with final revisions on the first fruits of his lei sure-a 63-minute oratorio, The Light in the Wilderness, an impressively imaginative step into the realm of large-scale serious composition...
Brubeck has been working on Light for the past two years in hotel rooms and airplanes during tours with the quartet. But it has only been since the quartet's last concert in Pittsburgh on Dec. 26 that he has had time to put in a full day's work on the score. Recently it was given its world premiere by a student chorus at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, under Professor Lara Hoggard, in a utility version for organ, percussion, chorus and baritone solo; its first orchestra performance is scheduled by the Cincinnati Symphony...
...with sureness and originality-of a different scope certainly, but at least on an equal plane, with the kind of deeply thought-out stylishness that characterized Brubeck's jazz work at its best. "I am quitting at my peak," said Brubeck of the quartet's disbandment, and Light in the Wilderness bears this...