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...concert closed with Webern, as many serialist concerts do; in this case the Three Small Pieces, Opus 11, superbly performed by Judith Davidoff and Rzewski. As usual, Webern made his successors seem rather tentative and shapeless (the exception was Mr. Rzewski's vastly self-assured piece), but he did not detract from their clear achievements, largely in the matters of color and dynamic subtlety. Whether or not the structural question has been answered is problematical. Wolff and others say that sense of direction should not necessarily be looked for in this music, that many works ought to be regarded...
...career began in childhood, ended in January when she left the company of the London hit comedy Roar Like A Dove; first Mrs. Gibbs in Thornton Wilder's Our Town (other stage credits: Russet Mantle, Candle in the Wind), cinemactress (The Bad Seed, Cheaper By The Dozen), radio serialist, familiar player on live dramatic TV; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Novelist James T. Farrell was probably feeling as unfunny as anybody. Fire had burned out his Manhattan apartment, and the dogged Studs Lonigan serialist faced the future practically barehanded. Up in flames (besides bales of literary notes, diaries, unpublished articles, critical essays, odds & ends); more than 50 unpublished short stories, mostly unfinished; about 100 pages of an unfinished novel (abandoned); a completed novelette, part of another; several hundred pages deleted from Farrell novels before publication; the original (unpublished) ending to Studs Lonigan; 400 pages from an unpublished sequel to Gas House McGinty...
Jules Remains, marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), was initiated into the august French Academy. He wore the traditional brocaded, green dress suit and the dress sword, but he skipped the traditional speech praising his predecessor. Predecessor Abel Bonnard had been kicked out of the Academy as a collaborationist...
...answer: whatever the others eat, since she rarely eats alone. Otherwise: fruit, coffee and one piece of toast for breakfast (after an eye opener of hot water and lemon juice) ; crackers and milk for lunch ; "I'm usually out to dinner." Jules Romaines, France's marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), clucked sadly at the writer's lot in the U.S., where "a writer ... is regarded as a specialist...