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...know two who preceded him: my husband, Ray Evans (lyric writer), and his collaborator, Jay Livingston (composer), who wrote such un-Indian songs as Mona Lisa, Buttons and Bows, Tammy, and Que Sera Sera. Lined up with their three Oscars are two peace pipes which they smoke after they argue about their pentameters and their pianissimos. They were taken into the Seneca Tribe of New York State about twelve years ago as Chief Words-Come-Easy and Chief Flowing Rhythm...
...four symphonies already behind him, Henze turned up in New York last week for the world premiere of his Fifth Symphony, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for its first season at Lincoln Center. The Fifth is Henze's Roman symphony, marked by a synthesis of fragmented lyric themes and rich moments of atonality in which Henze expresses "the sensual conflicts, happenings and joys that the modern, sensually-pleasing Rome suggests." Scored for an orchestra that omits clarinets and bassoons in favor of two pianos and two harps, the music is punctuated with tyrannic claps of the kettle drums...
...baronetcies. Favored Four. In 1951, two weeks after a lurid divorce from Louise, the duke married Mrs. Sweeny. Last week in Edinburgh, the Toppers too were divorced. Their decree. 65.000 words long, took the judge. Lord Wheatley, 4½ hours to read through. It was no Cole Porter lyric. On the basis of the evidence, declared the judge, the duchess, now 49, "was a completely promiscuous woman whose sexual appetite could only be satisfied by a number of men." He named four specific adulterers: John Cohane, 50, a U.S. businessman living in Ireland whom the court described as a "self...
Stanford White sketched before he could spell his name, painted with lyric proficiency before he was out of his early teens. But Artist John La Farge (who claimed that he diverted Henry James from painting to writing) advised White that his bent was not for art but architecture; more money in it, too, and recognition. Architect White won both, designing such famed monuments as Manhattan's Washington Arch, Madison Square Presbyterian Church, the Century and Metropolitan Clubs, and many of the buildings of New York University. But whenever he had an available moment, in summer trips through the Hudson...
Poetry for Rest. As much at home in the drawing room as over a row of figures, Jacobsson wrote mystery stories and read Swedish lyric poetry for relaxation. He was able to combine his love of food, wine and traveling as he crisscrossed the world to check I.M.F. activities, and he dined and negotiated with most of the world's rulers. The seven-room apartment that he shared with his Irish-born wife in Washington was cluttered with photographs of his three daughters (one of whom is married to the first four-minute miler. Roger Bannister) and eleven grandchildren...