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...Honegger of the evening is a late and little-known Concerto da Camera for flute, English horn and strings. Unlike the tense and rigid bombast of his earlier works (notably the symphonies and the oratorios), the concerto is a relaxed, graceful, spacious and thoroughly un-neurotic work. The mood is pastoral but placid--suggesting, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, not an unkempt meadow but a well-rolled English lawn...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra | 3/11/1961 | See Source »

...enough did happen last week to provide an educated estimate of the directions the Administration is most likely to take in its first weeks and months as it heads into the New Frontier. Much of the evidence came from Kennedy's first press conference, held in the spacious auditorium of the new State Department Building, where, before 418 newsmen, he fielded 31 questions in 38 minutes. From that conference, along with other presidential and Administration actions during the week, came the pointers toward the policies of the foreseeable future. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: New Frontier's Directions | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

...presumably extends to Editor Cousins' numerous extracurricular crusades, most notable of which is his co-chairmanship of SANE, a citizens' group dedicated to the final abolition of nuclear tests. But independence can be a relative thing. Only after Cousins & Co. have finally moved into McCall's spacious quarters at 230 Park Avenue and their little magazine has joined the other 56 magazines printed on the McCall presses in Dayton will the readiness of a whale to respect the independence of a minnow get its real test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Minnow & the Whale | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

Plans for Luckman's Garden also envisage a two-level building containing a 2,000-seat arena above and a 1,000-seat arena below. A third building will house a two-level restaurant; the spacious second- story mall will contain a skating rink and outdoor swimming pool, with a bowling alley and parking for 3,000 cars underneath. In cold-weather months, the rink and pool will be covered by a blue-tinted plastic roof held up by air pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTERTAINMENT: A New Garden | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...Assume that Low Rent Housing will decrease deliquency. Be sure to make the court-yards spacious enough to be used as battlefields...

Author: By Carl I. Gable jr., | Title: A Unique Solution to Juvenile Delinquency | 10/28/1960 | See Source »

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