Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Come to the Stable. Whitby is the creation of intense, redheaded Nancy McCormick Rambusch, 34, the Milwaukee-born wife of a church designer, and mother of two, who picked up her passion for Montessori methods while studying languages at the University of Paris. Trained as a Montessori teacher, she began with a small nursery group in her Manhattan apartment. Moving to Connecticut a few years later, she found fellow Catholic neighbors eager to try Montessori teaching, and in 1958 opened Whitby School in a renovated stable, naming it after the ancient Yorkshire abbey where Caedmon, the poet-stableboy, sang...
...family lives on Trifan's $9,000 a year in a modest, one-story house filled with educational devices from moon maps, Russian grammars and model dinosaur skeletons to two pianos, including one in a backyard practice cabin. Music is the Trifan passion. Pianist Marioara commutes three times weekly to Philadelphia's noted Curtis Institute, where she is the youngest student. The children practice for three hours in the morning, do school-work until 4 in the afternoon, then get one hour of play...
...forgotten on opening night in the performances of Erik Bruhn and Oklahoma-born Maria Tallchief. Appearing in the lead roles in Miss Julie, based on the theme of Strindberg's chilling play, they gave one of modern ballet's truly electric performances-taut, technically polished, tingling with passion. The following evening, in the more elegant climate of Swan Lake, they were equally convincing, and had critics groping for comparisons with such a legendary dancing pair as Nijinsky and Karsavina...
...shows us that a problem well stated finds its solution," but the "problem of the house has not been stated." Then, in his most famous dictum, he said that a house "is a machine for living in." The statement was not so inhuman as it sounded. Only architecture of "passion," he added, could live and last. "Passion can create drama out of inert stone...
Snake Man, by Alan Wykes. An engrossing portrait of a legendary eccentric of British East Africa, C.J.P. Ionides, whose passion is the care and capture of snakes...