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Unfortunately, the most traditional part of the football weekend--the post-game coktail party--cannot really be scheduled. One just has to crash it, pretending to be in search of a long-lost buddy from the Other Place, pleading the need for a brotherly drink, or just demanding the return of a purloined date...
Archaeology once appeared to be the domain of science fictioneers. The digger merely seemed to exercise his imagination in reverse. Instead of forecasting the farout future, he re-created the long-lost past. From a few hunks of bones he built dinosaurs. In the ashes of ancient camp fires he saw the life story of extinct societies. He re-created primitive artifacts from the flimsiest shards. Today, says...
...takes a customer home with her and soon finds that she is in a family way. The infant boy is sent to America. He returns after 20 years, and by stunning coincidence enters the tawdry cellar nightclub that his mother now owns. The woman stares wet-eyed at her long-lost son. She says nothing, poignantly. The youth must never know that this bulging madam is his mother...
...Jack Skow is to be highly commended, on the whole, for a job admirably well done despite the unfortunate misnomer of "scatologer" in reference to Holden Caulfield. The kid practically tells you that he's talking to you like you were some goddam long-lost buddy or something, and naturally he's not going to sound like he was talking to those nuns...
...never played the work publicly, and at her death in 1957, twelve years after Bartok died, she left the manuscript to Swiss Conductor Paul Sacher. who performed it in Switzerland in 1958. Last week Violinist Isaac Stern, playing in Carnegie Hall with the Philadelphia Orchestra, introduced Bartok's long-lost concerto to New York concertgoers...