Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your coverage of the national cultural scene you mention the important support given Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts by the Rockefeller Foundation. Please note that the contribution of the Rockefeller Foundation is $15,050,000, not $50 million, as reported. This Foundation is among the thousands of donors-individual, foundation and corporate-participating in the center's financing...
...from John Hersey's novel, sees the sedulously cultivated brain as man's perdition. But any resemblance between Shaw and Shyre-Hersey is only thematic. The Shaw comedy is still full of Mozartean eloquence, gusto and grace; the Shyre-Hersey play drones along with tongue-clattering one-note monotony...
...never stopped giving advice. "There is a certain common way of playing trills which reminds me of an electric doorbell," she warned. An ornament should "fill space with arabesques." How to begin to play a piece? "One has to concentrate and be entirely ready so that when the first note is struck, it comes as a sort of continuation of a soliloquy already begun. Similarly the last note is never the last. It is rather a point of departure for something to come." She was, in a way, describing her own lifework-the continuation of a centuries-old musical soliloquy...
...gentlemen, to be serious with you, I detected a more sinister note in your review. I think in a way that it helps to explain Sen. Goldwater's defeat last November. I do not wish it thought that I, like Sen. Goldwater, think the press was not biased during the last campaign. It was biased, and I do not think any of you will seriously question me on that score...
Money & Flattery. Until an adequate biography of Frost is published-Editor Lawrance Thompson's is due next year-the best indication of where Frost's secret places may lie is offered in his letters. This collection begins with a puppy-love note, written in 1887, when he was twelve, and ends with dinner invitations from Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. It would not be fair to say that what lies between shows the shape of his life. There are only occasional hints, for instance, to suggest the depth and quality of his relationship with his wife Elinor, presumably because...