Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just as much American in my approach and thinking as the next fellow." He got into the show-and went on to win a reputation as a man who lived in the busiest and most bustling of nations and pictured it as a land of long and silent dreams (see color). Last week Boston University was assembling 65 of his paintings and drawings for the biggest Kuniyoshi show in the U.S. since his death from cancer in 1953. The show will open next month...
When she said this, the old man was silent for a minute. Then he broke into a roar of laughter." The clan was enchanted with Jackie's thoughtful Christmas gifts-beautifully bound books, her own bright, primitive paintings (executed in a manner that suggests a liaison between Raoul Dufy and Grandma Moses)-and soon stood in awe of her because she had the stamina to stand up for her own tastes. "They seem proud if I read more books, and of the things I do differently. The very things you think would alienate them bring you closer to them...
...building silent stray cat finding no fish no poring over text-book no interviews nobody and somewhere (yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus) yes even CRIME-eds study. Except Monday, Wednesday, and Friday...
...Barber, 50, saw his Die Natali: Choral Preludes for Christmas given its first New York performance by the New York Philharmonic. The remarkably successful piece is essentially a patchwork of familiar Christmas carols artfully embedded in unfamiliar harmonies-0 Come, O Come, Emmanuel, We Three Kings of Orient Are, Silent Night, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen. The mood for the most part is reflective, the tone intensely lyrical, as most of Barber's best music is. The only truly shocking section of the piece is also one of the most effective: the brasses suddenly explode into a jazzy, freewheeling...
...drama. But within these limitations his best stories are of a very high order, and they might seem the product of genius rather than of painstaking craftsmanship if one could not see the techniques of their construction in other, slightly less successful stories in the collection. The familiar Silent Snow, Secret Snow is the prize of the lot-a brilliant evocation of a young boy's thoughts as he drifts happily into madness. Reality fades as the boy's mind is diverted to the beauty of a perpetual, invisible snowfall, and this quiet, sifting snow that slowly obliterates...