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Biggest Puzzle. Patrick is a kind of dilettante snowman, "detached to the point of selfishness in his chosen serenity . . . his violin-playing, his botany, his photography, his collection of Cretan ikous." Corfu thaws him out-first with a throb of color from its sapphire sea and sky, orange groves and olive trees, then with the pastoral charm of tinkling goat bells and squat white stone houses, and finally with its people, who teach him a language of the heart that is puzzlingly Greek to him. Biggest puzzle of all is his Venus de Miloesque wife Iris, who plunges into...
...Case of the Abominable Snowman...
...TIME, Jan. 23, you show a picture of footprints (or pawprints) of a "traveling snowman." Obviously, those prints were made by a three-legged fellow (probably a fuzzy, furry type) who was turning cartwheels. Let's not worry about him ; he's having...
...Rorem's A Childhood Miracle, produced with two-piano accompaniment by Punch Opera in Manhattan, was a fragile piece of Hawthorne about two little girls whose snowman comes to life and entertains them until grownups drag him indoors and he melts to a puddle by the firelight of reality. Composer Rorem, who now lives in Paris, wields his Ravel-lian style with an almost too delicate hand. But he is, at 32, a master writer for the human voice...
...brown felt hat, he wished a "Happy New Year to everybody everywhere." Then he was off to a holiday with his family, a champagne toast to see the New Year in, and a quiet Jan. 1, enlivened by the chatter of his grandchildren romping and rolling up a snowman in the yard of the Columbia University residence...