Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signed him to a new contract, and plans to record four concertos that were created for him, plus rarely heard pieces by Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Cole Porter. Recently, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz featured Adler in the New York Philharmonic's informal "Promenades" series at Manhattan's Lincoln Center-his first appearance with the Philharmonic in more than 20 years. His performances of Rumanian Fantasy for Harmonica and Orchestra, written for him in 1956 by Rumanian-born Composer Francis Chagrin, were worth the wait. As his hands fluttered and curved expressively around the instrument, his reedy, plangent tone skittered...
William Schuman, L.H.D., composer, president of Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts...
...long ago, the idea of a Czechoslovak Film Festival would have seemed as unlikely as a yacht regatta in Peking. When Ján Kadár's The Shop on Main Street was shown at New York's Lincoln Center Film Festival in 1965, it had no U.S. theater bookings; neither did Miloš Forman's Loves of a Blonde, when it opened the festival the following year. Shop went on to win an Oscar as the year's best foreign-language film, while Blonde, accompanied by delighted reviews, eventually proved a profitable box-office...
...Thank you for helping me justify the addition of a name to my dormant-since-Lincoln list of "Politicians Worthy of Hero Worship." It is a delight to find that not everyone in politics suffers from acute atrophy of the intellect. My only regret is being unable to vote for the remarkable Senator Scott of Pennsylvania [June...
...retell the ancient jape of the man who asked his mistress, "Do you smoke after?", and received the answer, "I don't know. I'll look next time." Alan, whose ordinariness is well portrayed by Off-Broadway Veteran John Tracy, meanders from Manhattan's Lincoln Center at the beginning to Long Island's Montauk Beach at the finale. Like the man who makes it, the journey is without aim or purpose-but not without poignancy...