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...modern taste, which feels uneasy in the presence of any kind of heroics, West's highly polished portraits are apt to seem his most appealing work. But as he wrote to his pupil Charles Willson Peale, "I am not friendly to the indiscriminate waste of genius in portrait painting." He wanted to "dignify man," to pass on lessons of "religion, love of country and morality." To the classic pursuit of the ideal, he added a romantic love of exalted sentiment. And this suited Georgian England perfectly: when men passed West's dramatic Death of Lord Nelson, they doffed...
...caged budgerigar chirps beneath Rembrandt's The Cradle. In addition, there is a Van Dyck ("A lovely one of a galloping horse," says the major) Rubens' portrait of Grotius ("Actually, they tell me now it may be a Van Dyck"), and a painting by Rembrandt's pupil Dou called Woman Drinking Soup out of a Bowl ("Personally. I think she is drinking wine...
...most of the orchestration was still incomplete; the rough score entrusted to his sister Maria contained as many as six alternate versions of some scenes. The job of selecting the best versions and of stitching the whole thing together was taken over by Spanish Composer Ernesto Halffter, a onetime pupil. Halffter was confident that he could remain true to the master's "musical tastes and ascetic conceptions...
High comedy is often compared to the dance, but few performances justify that analogy with the grace that this one musters. Miss Cross, who began her career here as a choreographer, has blocked this production like a ballet. Her most apt pupil, David Gullette (Feste) capers and leaps about in endless motion. He and Adrienne Harris (Maria) continually struck just the right pitch of lightness...
...solution is to put the state's best teachers on TV and beam their skills at every classroom. First talked up by a group of businessmen, notably Textile Manufacturer John Cauthen, closed-circuit TV can eventually cover the state at a yearly cost of only $14 per pupil. The goal is still distant, but the state legislature has yet to turn down a single new TV appropriation. Each year more coaxial cables are run from schools to microwave stations that pick up broadcasts from the South Carolina Educational Television Commission's well-appointed studios in Columbia...