Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Margot Fonteyn. Against a hazy background of sumptuously costumed choristers arranged like figures in a Renaissance tapestry, Dame Margot was a floating vision in white. Dancing with the Paris Opera's Attilio Labis, she portrayed a maiden-monarch torn between love and duty, melting from sternly regal poses into flights of rapturous lyricism. Marina Svetlova's straightforward choreography was in perfect accord with Purcell's music-buoyant, charming, exquisitely simple...
...Concorde will be first? Engineers from B.A.C.'s partner, Sud-Aviation of France, recently came back from a trip to the Soviet Union with word that Russia's 1,550-m.p.h. TU-144 transport probably will be in the air some time before the Concorde's maiden flight in February...
Either way, the dark, scowling observer goes unhindered about his offbeat reporting. He consciously avoids the stereotype of the foreign correspondent who deals only with high officials and sees himself as a minister without portfolio. Rudd concentrates on ordinary matters: synagogues and supermarkets, the horseradish gap, and the maiden voyage of the new luxury liner Alexander Pushkin. "The Russians say the ship is sailing almost empty because she has not been advertised in the Soviet Union," he said about the Pushkin, "but the fact is it's impossible for all but a handful of Russians to leave the country...
...Maiden Fair. The story takes place Far Away (south of France, north of Italy) and Long Ago (end of the 16th century). The heroine, a young Frenchwoman Of Gentle Birth named Emily St. Aubert, is a Damsel In Distress-Alone In the Cold Cruel World with only her Lofty Principles to guide her. She is beautiful and dutiful, weeps for 30 pages at a stretch, faints wherever the carpeting permits, seeks refuge from the "vices of the world" in the "beauties of nature and the nicer emotions of the mind." She sketches, plays the lute, offers helpful hints to harried...
Touch's family is made up of dull, joke-cracking father Jack; shallow, bourgeois mother Ruth; precocious and sensitive son Tom (he's just won a national English contest); and maiden but equally sensitive aunt Emily. The action of the play centers around bringing Tom and Emily together, breaking down the walls of alienation which are physically represented by their separate garret-like rooms. Emily speaks to Tom only through monologues into a tape recorder, a device which Mr. Schwartz uses to great advantage...