Word: press
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Metropolitan Opera, Rudolf Bing, has grown so used to skirmishes with the critics that his defenses have nearly become reflex actions. In announcing the six new productions he will mount at the Met next season, Bing simultaneously unleashed a blast at the waiting critics. "What is the press? Six or eight people with their own opinions," snapped Bing. "If critics were acrobats, they would all long ago be dead." ∙∙∙ Ill lay: German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, 55, in Bonn with an attack of pleurisy that caused him to cancel last week's scheduled trip to Asia...
...form work called Novara (1962), his long fingers fluttered, his hands twirled, his palms undulated in an assortment of uniquely personal and specific hand signals. Clenched fists brought forth hard, crashing sounds. He touched index finger to thumb to produce tiny streams of pizzicato noises. Occasionally a player would press down a trumpet valve without blowing, and let it go just for the click. Or another would blow through a trombone to achieve a breathy effect. There were prolonged single notes and furious tonal scurryings up and down the scale. Yet the Peabody Contemporary Ensemble blended it all into...
...perseverance and undying confidence of psychic researchers are currently visible in a new book of ESP and PK studies called Parapsychology Today (Citadel Press; $6.00). The volume's 22 essays are short on ghostly tales of otherworldly communications, long on dry data of laboratory probing. But they show how sophisticated psi tests have become since Rhine first took up parapsychology some four decades...
...cookbooks, one is the work of Ruth Gaskins, a Negro from Alexandria, Va., who works as a federal clerk in Washington. Her A Good Heart and a Light Hand (Turnpike Press, $3) contains recipes for everything from possum casserole to potato wine, and is selling at the rate of 1,000 copies a month. The other, Soul Food Cookery, by a black public relations woman in Kansas City named Inez Kaiser (Pitman, $3.95), has 266 carefully indexed recipes that include "soul" sandwiches and "soul" TV snacks...
Country Weekly. Located in a three-story, stone-and-brick building just inside the Vatican City's walls, L'Osservatore exudes less the atmosphere of an afternoon daily than of a country weekly. The paper normally goes to press around 3:30 p.m. but will hold for an hour or longer if a papal announcement is expected. The twelve editorial staffers, who include both laymen and priests, rarely worry about deadlines; if they miss one day's edition, they merely put their copy in a drawer until the morrow...