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Possibly Rolled. The performance was actually a prèmiere, since the work will not be played at Chichester itself until later this month. Let the bishop be on guard: he will need to assemble a highly capable cathedral choir. Aside from the challenge of the score, there is the problem of pronunciation (for non-Hebrew speakers) as posed in Bernstein's notes: "H-slightly guttural, though not so guttural as ch, which is pronounced as in German (Buch). R-rolled if possible, as in Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: In This Age of Dodecaphonics | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...catch a glimpse of the Mars picture on the wrong television channel.) and does a lot of work for (you guessed it) The Boy Scouts of America, In addition he is on the board of Directors of Royal Crown Cola, "purely as a matter of business, not just PR. I didn't want any part of using my name for advertising...

Author: By A. DOUGLAS Matthews, | Title: The All - American All - American | 7/19/1965 | See Source »

...cold." Men were apt to dismiss his allure as a capacity for taking infinite pains in the pursuit of pleasure: having a match flaming by the time a woman's cigarette touched her lips, for example, or being, as his old Paris nickname of "Toujours Prêt" suggested, ever ready to supply affection. Rubi himself simply said, "I try to make women happy. A woman does not like to be pawed. She likes to be-uh-liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International Set: Toujours Pret | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

...long as she's at it why not draw on one's womanly sensitivity, experience and powers of observation to write what the PR blurb describes as the story of two girls, "one self-assured, perhaps even aggressive, eager for companionship, and decidedly on the make," and the other young lady, the narrator, "shy, sensitive, and cautious, yet at the same time eager for a relationship she fears but finds constantly in her dreams," and later how "in the New York world of abundant drink and casual fornication, the relationship between the two girls becomes, in a sense, reversed." Fine...

Author: By A DOUGLAS Mathews, | Title: A Woman Should Have A Hobby. | 7/6/1965 | See Source »

Conformism was out--so they served martinis in brandy snifters. "Something a MAN can hold onto, and swish around. Nothing effeminate around here," the PR man said. Maybe the idea will catch on, and no home will be complete without a glass, plus contents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gets Party (Advertisement) | 4/14/1965 | See Source »

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