Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Private Lives epitomizes these characteristics. It is 40 years old and as young as tomorrow evening. The present production is stylish, smart, and bubbles with frivolity. Coward creates the aura of anticipatory delight. Momentarily, one expects something scandalous to be said, something bizarre to be done, characters to be mesmerically drawn to each other and just as galvanically repulsed by each other. Just as F. Scott Fitzgerald threw iridescent parties in his novels, Coward has saturated his plays with the ambience of sophistication. One always seems to be slumming upwards at a Coward play, forever lingering on a moonlit terrace...
Years of music study, for one thing -at the Manhattan School of Music, Princeton, Brandeis and a year of graduate work at the Free University in Berlin. At Manhattan, Gelles studied under Michael Steinberg, a distinguished musicologist who now writes reviews for the Boston Globe. Like Steinberg, Critic Gelles insists upon high musical standards. Four weeks ago in the Globe, Steinberg chided Carlo Maria Giulini, guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. If Danny Kaye or Victor Borge had conducted "with such crazed dislocation of tempo and with such prodigality in expression of tragic suffering and deep knee-bends," wrote...
Friends of the symphony bridled. Several orchestra members signed an anti-Steinberg telegram to the Globe. The protest went unheeded. Similarly, a Symphony Orchestra board of trustees member wrote to Herald Traveler Publisher Harold E. Clancy expressing dismay that the paper had hired "one of [Steinberg's] young imitators. We think that perhaps the Herald might be in a position to alter its course...
Clancy denies that he was reacting to any pressure, but Gelles was suddenly promoted to critic at large. So far, his duties are not exactly defined; Gelles' editors have not given him any assignments. One thing is perfectly clear, though: "at large" does not include the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...One of the aftermaths of last February's demise of the Saturday Evening Post was the fact that the Curtis Publishing Co. had no magazines at all, while the Post's sister publications, Holiday and Jack and Jill, were the property of a corporate hybrid called the Saturday Evening Post Co. Last week some semblance of the good old days was restored when Curtis reacquired Jack and Jill and Holiday. Simultaneously, there came an echo of the era when kids could earn roller skates, baseball mitts and bikes by selling Post subscriptions. Henceforth, announced the November issue...