Word: penchants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David Rockefeller Jr. '63, one of the founders of the fellowships, said yesterday that they will be given to "men with a penchant for travel, self-exploration, and involvement with people of another culture...
Called "Red" because of his carrot mane and his penchant for clashing red clothes, Grooms is as gently ingenuous as his art. After high school in Nashville (where he was voted "Most Witty"), he successively studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, at the New School, and with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown. Fascinated with things theatrical, he also became head usher at the old Roxy in New York. "Part of art is showmanship," he says. He directed his own "happenings" and acted in them in clown's whiteface and ice-cream pants. Action painting was a religious faith...
Professors with a penchant for horse steak have had to go without for the last two weeks. The Faculty Club was to drop it from the menu when their New York meat broker announced that his source had run out. According to Charles L. Coulson, manager of the Faculty Club, horse heat is "mostly for cat and dog consumption, but during World War II when there was a meat shortage, it put on the menu, and it's been there since...
RACHMANINOFF: SECOND PIANO CONCERTO (Columbia). In 1947 an 18-year-old student with a penchant for Rachmaninoff was chosen to play the Second Piano Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Gary Graffman has never stopped reworking the ultraromantic piece and by now, as shown by this rich and seasoned performance, his formidable steel fingers are entirely in the service of the Russian's melancholy rhapsodies. With the New York Philharmonic, under Bernstein...
...Kiwanis, has a Major Hoople-ish voice just perfect for harrumphing (although he does not indulge) and a sense of humor just dry enough to let him refer to a political enemy as "that rodent" and pull it off. In addition, the dapper Senator from Pennsylvania has a delightful penchant for the well turned phrase (he often emits a self-congratulatory chortle after some especially well burnished jewel), and speaks with the assurance of a man used to being listened...