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Capable Scripters Betty Comden and Adolph Green wrote the book and lyrics, but apparently their thinkwell ran dry. The initial notion sounds funny: to explore the antics of a special tribe of New Yorkers who shun the workaday rat race by turning into moles. They doze at Grand Central, sleep on subways, and even rest in the Egyptian sarcophagi at the Metropolitan Museum. They are not exactly bums, but grey flannel grifters who sponge off friends, walk dogs, and ring Christmas bells as charity Santas...
Phenix's ideal school would shun all social stratification, from numbered grades to skin color. It would emphasize learning as "preparation for the good life," not "the cash value of more education." It would stress the rule of law in national and world affairs, and forcefully analyze "the extreme destructiveness of modern weapons of war." From the consequences of protective tariffs to the advantages of foreign languages, it would always presuppose "universality and world outlook...
...this easy good humor, Miss Addison's most musical and least melancholy voice is eminently suited; not once did she encumber the music with leaden emotions foreign to its spirit, or dirty it with less than perfect phrasing and dynamics. Her coloratura in the incomparable "Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly" was remarkable for its clarity and restraint; and in the jolly "Orpheus himself may heave his head" her own humor was crisp and sparkling...
...essence, the Russians shun this-is-fun in favor of solid content. In his first reader, the Russian tot is blatantly propagandized, notably in a eulogy of Lenin's love for children. He is urged to keep clean, study hard, tell the truth, feed birds in winter, help old ladies when they fall, and take care of papa when mama is off at her job flying an airplane. But he also studies the lives of ants, bees and squirrels. He is taught how to identify six mushrooms, twelve birds and the tracks of hares, foxes and wolves. Fully...
Renaissance artists freely mixed painting, sculpture and jewelry making, largely because they depended on patrons for a living and their patrons wanted all three. Today's painters and sculptors, free of that pressure, largely shun jewelry making, uncertain whether it is an art, a trade, or merely a manner of preserving precious stones. To combat the notion that jewelry makers are not artists but artisans, London's 800-year-old Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths this month is showing the largest recent collection of fine jewelry. For every piece from Boucheron and Cartier, Harry Winston and Tiffany, there...