Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Schonfield has missed the point. The plot is much bigger than he realized; its magnitude must make us gasp with admiration. Think of the Madison Avenue techniques apparent in the show put on some 30-odd years earlier-finding out about the impending tax from "contacts" (the perfect excuse for a trip to Bethlehem), timing the conception of a boy child, setting the stage (the angels' choirs and star alone must have cost plenty). What seriousness of purpose, what singleness of thought to hold to for 33 years And finally, she even managed to have Him find someone...
Returning home, the scholarly-looking Lewis founded the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in 1958, led it on a 14-country junket through Europe. After serving for three years as associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where his quietly authoritative approach was a perfect complement to the flamboyant attack of fiery Zubin Mehta, the orchestra's resident conductor, Lewis this year was appointed music director of the Los Angeles Opera Company. Now 33, he lives with his wife, Mezzo Soprano Marilyn Home, in a fashionable home in North Hollywood complete with swimming pool. Says Wife Marilyn, who is white...
Magritte, 67, who made his first visit to New York for the opening along with his wife Georgette and his dog Lou-Lou, succeeded as the perfect straight man of surrealism. "The thought expressed in my work is absolute," he said. "It can't be interpreted. In my painting, a bird is a bird. And a bottle is a bottle, not a symbol of a womb." All of which inspired critics to find his work an antecedent of pop art. The painting is so meticulous, the objects themselves so ordinary yet so extraordinarily juxtaposed that Magritte obviously means...
...what he called with desperate facetiousness his "last tooloose-Lowrytrek," he wrote a British friend: "I have, since being here, been in prison three times. Everywhere I go I am pursued and even now, as I write, no less than five policemen are watching me. This is the perfect Kafka situation but you will pardon me if I do not consider it any longer funny . . . There is a church here for those who are solitary and the comfort you obtain from it is non-existent though I have wept many times there . . . Incidentally I smell...
...Anne padded about country-club terraces in madras shorts, smiled for the family photographers, and read comics instead of classics. Their mother came from an old-line Roman Catholic family (their father converted before his marriage), and they both attended strict Catholic schools, took their religion seriously. They seemed perfect "convent girls...