Word: matchlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Serene Monégasque. America's second-front First Lady, Princess Grace of Monaco, has put her matchless monogram on an alien environment. Since her 1956 abdication as queen of the M-G-M lot (185 acres) in order to reign over Monaco (368 acres), Grace has made a home of the old, 200-room palais princier, which had fallen into disuse when Prince Rainier lived in bachelor discomfort on Cap Ferrat. Redecorated, replumbed and filled with flowers, the hilltop palais princier echoes again to the laughter of frequent guests and splashings from the heated pool that Grace built...
Last week the dream faculty was hard at work teaching 13 rigorously selected students at the University of Southern California's Institute for Special Musical Studies. All three men are full professors there, and each devotes two afternoons a week to teaching-mostly by demonstrating his own matchless technique. The students, who range from talented teenagers to working professionals, sit with their instruments at the ready while Maestro Piatigorsky rumbles out his Russian-flavored instructions, or Primrose -ruddy, tweedy and bespectacled- earnestly demonstrates the fine points of bowing. The unexpected comic on the faculty is normally glacial Jascha Heifetz...
...Their matchless energy finally running low, Brother Plenipotentiary Bobby Kennedy and Hurricane Ethel blew into Washington's National Airport from the last leg of their four-week, 14-country world tour. Eagerly waiting at the field was their brood of seven, which had prepared a skit parodying the parental trip. But before the breathless kids could go onstage, the nation's business intervened again. "We're going to the White House," announced the Attorney General. Wondered his Washington-wise wife: "To get debriefed...
...communication be tween stage and audience that Isaac Stern once described: "Standing on the stage alone with only a piece of wood with some strings and horsehair between you and the audience, you have to have the belief that 'I have something to give you.' " The matchless possessor of that belief has been enjoying a semi-vacation from his public for the past six years, spending most of his time in his Beverly Hills home and engaging in occasional chamber-music sessions with his friends Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and Violinist William Primrose. Next week he will begin teaching...
...Western World. Again, if Yeats had not spoon-fed Dublin's infant Abbey Theater with the heady ethnic pabulum of Cathleen ni Houlihan, there would have been neither stage nor actors for the memorable tragi-comedies of Sean O'Casey. And above all, there was the matchless mature poetry of Yeats himself, not popular balladry as he had hoped, not mythic, mysterious and magical as he had planned, but lucid, passionate, realistic, masterly and, at its finest, universal...