Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yeats; in Paris he sought out James Joyce; in London he came to know Shaw, Wilde and Aldous Huxley. To women he was irresistible. It was said the female sitters would sometimes strip off their clothes without John's either asking or wanting them to. When in a stern mood, John would punish them by painting only their faces...
From the East come Premier Khrushchev, Mao Tse Tung, the East European and Asian comrades; and Hoxha of Albania, alone. Their collective faces are grim; their collective gait resolute; their demeanor stern...
Only a game like Saturday's--designed for the tales of a Robert Ripley or a Bill Stern--could lead to such confounding statements as: "I was fairly well pleased with our overall performance," by Yovicsin, the losing coach, and "I was not satisfied with our club," by the winning coach Bill Leckonby. The happy, yet "disappointed" Leckonby added in philosophical reflection, "This game of football, I don't know. The more you play it, the less you understand about it. I wonder...
Change of Pace. Casals mesmerizing performance and an eerily effective rendition of Beethoven's Trio in D Major (the "Ghost" Trio) by Violinist Stern, Pianist Eugene Istomin and Cellist Leonard Rose were the high points of Israel's month-long festival. But there were other triumphs. Staged at seven sites from Haifa to the Revivim kibbutz, the festival drew 56,000 people to 23 concerts. In Tel Aviv, 500 music lovers who could not squeeze into the already-packed 3,000-seat Mann Auditorium were chased by police from a parapet outside the second floor. In Jerusalem...
Carnegie Hall Salutes Jack Benny (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A tribute to the eminent violinist, taped last April. With Isaac Stern, Van Cliburn, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Benny Goodman and his sextet, and Roberta Peters...