Word: scionness
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...composers Boulez chooses to encounter -and upon their ability to communicate, musically and verbally, with their audiences. Boulez has so far made it clear that he is unlikely to schedule his own music. Still, the complexity and climate of "Prospective Encounters" may be safely forecast by listening to PH Scion Pli, a Boulez composition just released by Columbia Records...
PIERRE ("PETE") DU PONT IV, 36, Republican, Del., looks the industrial scion he is: slender, aristocratic, out of Exeter, Princeton and Harvard Law School. He is most concerned about the U.S. drug problem, and is seeking a seat on the Commerce Committee, which has a subcommittee on drugs. He calls his bargaining as freshman "playing poker with no cards...
Died. Harry F. Guggenheim, 80, philanthropist and industrialist, who with his wife founded Long Island's Newsday and turned it into the largest suburban daily (circ. 455,501) in the U.S.; in Sands Point, N.Y. Scion of a wealthy mining family, Guggenheim devoted his early years to the family's businesses and foundations, translating his immense enthusiasm for aviation into generous grants that helped establish six schools of aeronautical engineering (including those at M.I.T., Caltech and Stanford), underwrote Charles A. Lindbergh's triumphal tours with the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927, and financed much...
...Columbus and is hooked. She cried when she read the novel; he choked up. Who could resist Jennifer Cavilleri, the Radcliffe girl, condemned on the first page to a tragic death, then, loving Bach and the Beatles right to the end, expiring in her husband's arms? Leaving Harvard Scion Oliver Barrett IV with nothing but a ticket to Paris and a handful of bittersweet memories?plus about a drillion dollars from the dad who forgives him for marrying a Rhode Island Italian, now that she is dead...
...knew what he was about even if Segal didn't: a shrewd remake of a Claudette Colbert-Bette Davis tear-jerker, a wet and sloppy romantic interlude which ends in no good for one more tough American broad. Although the death watch exploits Ryan O'Neal as the rebellious scion with a lump in his throat, the real focus of this 1940 star-posturing is Ali McGraw. (Had she worn the midi, it would have been a little too ludicrous...