Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season, but now feels that he can push the orchestra no further. Says Dorati blandly: "An artist of my caliber-and I am one of the best-must always be building." Replacing Dorati in Minneapolis is Polish Conductor-Composer Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (pronounced Sta-nis-waff Skro-vah-cheff-ski), whose name is giving his new home town so much trouble that even the press release announcing his appointment misspelled it. A onetime student of France's famed Nadia Boulanger, Conductor Skrowaczewski, 36, became prominent after the war as a vigorous champion of modern music, in rapid succession directed three...
...Aspen's disgruntled inhabitants, he was known contemptuously as "The Baron." But soon ski lodges, hotels, a health center and an amphitheater rose where nothing had been before. The winter, according to Paepcke, could be the time for sport; but the summer was to be reserved for artists and intellectuals. The procession that came was impressive-birdlike Igor Stravinsky, rehearsing his Firebird in jeans he insisted on calling "pantaloons"; the leonine head of Albert Schweitzer bowed over a keyboard; ebullient Mortimer Adler conducting a rapid-fire philosophical discussion while sweating in a sauna (Finnish bath). "The Aspen idea," said...
...their political lives from Superior to Fond du Lac. Kennedy's 70-year-old mother Rose, flanked by a bevy of daughters, left no Kaffeeklatsch unpercolated; Muriel Humphrey passed out thousands of copies of her celebrated recipe for beef soup. Brother Ted Kennedy gamely made the first ski jump of his career for the cause, and Brother Bob, erstwhile counsel of the Senate's Mc-Clellan Committee, told bug-eyed audiences of farmers his hair-raising tales of the sinister labor racketeers...
Lundy's fanciful roofs have now brought him commissions for a ski resort in New Mexico, a school in Westport, Conn., a Unitarian church in Fairfield County, Conn. But more than commissions and prizes (his $80,000 St. Paul's Lutheran Church just got an Award of Merit from the American Institute of Architects), Lundy treasures the enthusiastic response of the people who use his buildings. "There is nothing contrived about my architecture," he says. "It is bold and naked. If it doesn't succeed, then everybody knows about...
...will be built along Colorado's White River by Elliott Roosevelt and two Denver businessmen. Limited to 500 companies, membership will cost $10,000, plus $90 per month dues. Called the All Seasons Club, posh, 250-room hotel is designed for expense-account entertaining, will feature golf course, ski lift, and big-game hunting...