Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After 12 years in the D.C. public school system," one faculty member said this summer, "many of these kids don't ever want to see a classroom again. But if we make their education relevant, we feel that they will want to learn, and will take part in the teaching process...
...see in this young man," he says, "the influence of a composite of the work of other great artists from Canaletto to Boudin, but it has a flash of the genius that was to come in later years, and sometimes these early flashes of genius are the man's greatest." Be sides, he adds practically, "there has not been as great an impressionist painting available since World War II. The really great Renoirs are all in museums or foundations...
...about historic personages, along with other more or less fascinating oddments of Americana, now await tourists and trivia enthusiasts at Washington's new National Portrait Gallery. For its opening exhibit, called "This New Man: A Discourse in Portraits," the gallery assembled 173 likenesses of figures from American history (see color pages). Though the gallery already owns some 500 pictures, it reached outside its own store and borrowed about three-quarters of the portraits now on show. Paintings, busts, daguerreotypes, cartoons, and even occasional photographs are arranged in rooms that were liberally draped with flags and bunting for opening week...
...sings, her voice throbbing through the loudspeaker. The orchestra pulsates and the other people on stage stomp their feet in time and join in the song. There is no set on the stage and no subtlety in the musical number: the man whose story we are going to see is a man possessed by the most basic of passions. But Zorba is only one man and not at the center of Prince's show; his passions...
...share the stage with some other people, among them Maria Karnilova. This is the first time in Miss Karnilova's career (which includes performances varied as a stripper in Gypsy and Tevye's wife in Fiddler on the Roof) that we see enough of her to leave the theatre satisfied. As Hortense, the French lady on the hill who lets Zorba share her bed, she becomes a vision of lonely fortitude in the face of life's injustice. In one scene, during a song that tells of the "pretty admirals" who kept company with her in the distant past...