Word: pined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weave the frail melodies of the strings with the fluttering piano passages of Gabriel Faure's Piano Quartet No. 1. Violinist Alexander ("Sasha") Schneider ran through a set of Beethoven sonatas with Artistic Director Serkin's twelve-year-old son, Peter, at the piano. And in the pine-paneled concert hall, Pablo Casals, 83, conducted a chamber orchestra in Mozart's G-Minor Symphony, using a yellow pencil as a baton, spurring on his men and himself with cries of "Oh, very well, very well! So beautiful...
...Trip to Czardis, on Manhattan's WCBS-TV, told of two small boys in the Florida pine woods who go with their mother and uncle to see their father, sick in a nearby town. As it turns out, he is not really sick; he is in prison, and a crowd is already collecting to watch him hang. He says goodbye to the boys, giving one a watch, the other its chain. The older boy understands, his brother does...
...warm summer evening, the kids gathered under the scrub oak and jack pine on the west bank of the Wisconsin River and began to warm up an old-fashioned Ukrainian songfest. All of them (aged 7 to 20) were the sons and daughters of Ukrainian refugees living around Chicago. As dedicated members of a patriotic American-Ukrainian group called the Ukrainian Boy and Girl Scouts (no kin to the National Boy and Girl Scouts), they had looked forward all through the city's hard winter to the annual scout camp near Mauston...
...suburb, the chances are you know the man who is running for the school board, and you vote for or against him with more understanding." Says Don C. Peters, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon-Stuart Co. (construction) and chairman of the board of supervisors of suburban Pine Township: "The American suburb is the last outpost of democracy, the only level left on which the individual citizen can make his wishes felt, directly and immediately. I think there's something idealistic about the search for a home in the suburbs. Call it a return to the soil...
...spends weekends during the summer in his white-brick mansion in a pine forest near Holland's Haarlem. Called Koekoeks Duin (Cuckoo's Dune) when Loudon bought it five years ago, it is hung with tapestries and paintings (among them a self-portrait of the young Rembrandt), stocked with old editions, and graced with an icebox liquor cabinet hidden behind a fake bookshelf (Loudon's drink: Scotch and soda). He is an excellent dancer, likes to golf (in the 90s), spent a week last winter skiing in Switzerland with his wife and two of his sons, Fred...