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Behind her were two years of preparation-eight hours a day devoted to her maxim that "a work of art must be broken into a thousand pieces if it is to survive in the eternal." She bought a piano that had been built in Mozart's time, played it repeatedly to test its limitations, concluded that because of its fragile construction the composer expected his music to be played with a softer touch than is customary among modern pianists. Says she: "I eat, I talk, I clean my teeth, but always in the back of my head...
...fact, the novelty of having women appear in pants suits has headwaiters across the country in a swither. Chicago's Maxim's and Manhattan's "21," for instance, maintain a rigid ban, while other top restaurants allow them, provided that the suits are sufficiently dressy. Beverly Hills Restaurateur Steven Crane (the SCAM, the Luau, plus a chain extending to seven other cities) recently called a summit meeting to set national policy. His guideline: if the whole party is sufficiently "cocktailly" or black tie, the pants suits get seated...
...60th birthday. Composer Dmitri Shostakovich received another gift too: the Soviet title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Best of all was the successful first Moscow performance of his new piece, Cello Concerto No. 2, conducted by a similarly slight, bespectacled musician: Dmitri's 28-year-old son Maxim...
When he retired in 1962 as pastor of Manhattan's modish, 157-year-old Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, the Rev. John Sutherland Bonnell found a fitting maxim for the occasion, a line from an old temperance song that admonished, "Have courage, my boy, to say no." It was high time, he said, for an old preacher to go dry fly-fishing in the streams of his native Prince Edward Island. Last week, at 73, Bonnell unexpectedly turned no into yes and accepted the presidency of Manhattan's little interdenominational New York Theological Seminary (enrollment: 180). For the occasion...
...Where is your spirit of adventure? The Mark Twain of today doesn't just follow that crowd to Maxim's or the London Hilton; he makes like Europeans themselves, packs his camping gear in the car, and voila! the whole family are enjoying themselves just as they did back in Yosemite National Park, only now it's less crowded. There are thousands of excellent camp sites from the fjords of Norway to the oases of Morocco, from Ireland to Turkey, in the biggest cities and the smallest villages; and there are many camping guides in English. Between...