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Several days after the great moment, Leonard Bernstein was sick in bed in his Washington hotel suite. He looked gaunt, and was exhausted from more than a year's work on the Mass in places as far-flung as Montauk, Tel Aviv and Vienna, and by a final bout of rehearsing that over the past few months has permitted him only three hours' sleep a night. Disappointed but not discouraged by the critical reception of his Mass, Bernstein was overwhelmed by the passionate response he felt it had stirred among the audience in general. On this and other...
...week's cover story on Dick Cavett, Correspondent Carey Winfrey found himself in an unusual position for a journalist. "Cavett was so pleasant," says Winfrey, "that it actually got to the point where I felt guilty for eating up what little spare time he had." En route to Montauk, Long Island, for a weekend at Cavett's country home, Winfrey discovered that Cavett takes advantage of every moment. Driving his station wagon northward along Route 27, the performer managed to catch his own show by taking sidelong glances at the portable TV balanced precariously on Winfrey...
...lodged some fine credits (Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams). While Dick is ambitious but unobsessed with his work, she is not driven at all. She spends most of her time reading, and by choice has not acted in two years. She prefers loafing at the Cavetts' old, ramshackle house at Montauk, on the eastern tip of Long Island. "I like falling-down dilapidated houses, unrestored and unregenerated," she says. "Maybe we're the Snopeses...
...Cavetts' relationship allows for a kind of respectful distance. In town they see only a small number of friends at home and rarely go out together. Dick, who used to enjoy partygoing, now much prefers privacy and books. Carrie Nye will often spend a week alone at Montauk ("It's like taking your brain out of your head and laundering it"). Dick, too, will take a weekend there alone, wandering among the dunes. A friend calls it "tactful withdrawal." At the same time, both see a wry absurdity in the outward aspects of their marriage. Sometimes they play a talk...
...President has ever slept or seems likely even to visit. The organization's letterhead carries a seal so similar to that of the President's that the State Department has protested. Despite these negative credentials, the "library" last weekend staged a symposium on the presidency at Montauk, N.Y., that attracted some high Government officials, past and present...