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...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:45 p.m.). Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959), with Gary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason...
...HEIFETZ: SAINT-SAENS, SONATA NO. 1 (RCA Victor). As Professor Higgins once observed, Frenchmen don't actually care what they do, only how they pronounce it. And Charles Camille Saint-Saens is nothing if not French. "The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music," he once declared. Most of his music, including Sonata No. 1 For Piano ' and Violin, is more form than substance. Still, Jascha Heifetz plays it well, and includes satisfying little pieces by four other...
Bowing his head over the bottle of Saint-Emilion and a sliced loaf of whole-wheat bread on the living-room table, the priest prayerfully recalled the Last Supper: "And so we remember what Jesus said to his disciples, 'Take and eat, for this is my body.' " The consecration completed, the 24 men and women in the room kissed each other on the cheek or shook hands, as a sign of peace. While a guitar plunked softly in the background, the worshipers shared the bread and wine and sang a hymn from the Mass for Young Americans...
Mask of Fear. Dr. Hartogs' eight-letter thoughts on four-letter words are confusing enough to make a saint swear. On the one hand, he says that excessive swearing may be a "symptom of pre-schizophrenic personality disintegration." On the other, he regards the growing use of obscene language as "a rising index of spiritual freedom." But he can't quite tell: it may also be a "mask of fear" and "the last resort of the non-achiever." This is simply to say what has always been known-that dirty words are not always to be taken literally...
Study & Copy. To be sure, New York still has Saint-Gaudens' original concrete study in the Museum of the City of New York. Another Diana, a 9-foot bronze copy made in 1928, is owned by the Metropolitan Museum; its twin graces the Long Island garden, now public, of the late Financier John S. Phipps. But the real Diana is New York's no more...