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That was ten years ago. Last week Conductor Rodzinski, 64, was back in Chicago for the first time since his abrupt dismissal as boss of the Chicago Symphony. He came this time at the invitation of the Chicago Lyric Opera to conduct three performances each of Tristan und Isolde and Boris Godunov. In the process he demonstrated much of the brilliance that made him a legend with Chicago audiences a decade ago-but also flashes of the erratic temperament that had antagonized stiff-necked symphony board members...
...most remarkable Russian novel of the 20th century has been translated into 18 languages, but it is a book without a country. Last week its author, Novelist-Poet Boris Pasternak, 68, received the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature† for his lyric poetry and for Doctor Zhivago (TIME, Sept. 15), the novel about Russia's terrible years that no Russian may read...
...could miss for a moment that for all her arm-flinging antics, Dorothy can really play. There are those who insist that she is not the best female jazz pianist in the U.S., but while it soaked up her lyric black magic last week the crowd at the Embers would have been willing to argue...
Italy to greet her new secretary and companion, United Nations Guide Linda Barone, then plunged on to Chicago, where she opens the Lyric Opera's season in Verdi's Falstaff. Two and a half weeks later she will open the 74th season of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera in Tosca...
...going home to a family must seem humdrum." Thus the handy Beat Generation label, a device more literary than lifelike that has been applied to everything from Godot* to Bardot, was formally pinned on Brando. But the experts disagreed violently about whether the actor with the sweatshirt and the lyric lunkishness really could boast the credentials of a true beatnik. Certain habits are in his favor: he has been known to greet visitors in his underwear, date hash-house waitresses, play the bongo drums. In Beatnik Kerouac's phrase, he seems to want everything at the same time...