Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performed as guest soloist with many major chamber groups. He has released two solo albums; the latest, The Art of Richard Stoltzman (Desmar), is a marvelous collection of 19th century French clarinet pieces. He will make his debut with the New York Philharmonic next year. Says Violinist Isaac Stern: "Rarely have I heard such a virtuoso use of the clarinet. He has searched out its possibilities, and he has the sort of solo quality about him that makes him equal to any performer...
...trying one. Item: Retreating before the distemper of feminists who do not like all hurricanes to bear women's names, Government meteorologists this year will christen storms not only Aletta but Bud and Daniel and Fico. Item: A national chain, Sambo's Restaurants, has run into stern resistance in New England, where civil rights groups are trying to ban the name because of allegedly racist overtones. Item: A young man who asked a Minnesota court to change his name to "1069" was recently refused and rebuked by the judge for proposing "an offense to human dignity" and seeking...
...female soloists are not up to the men. Still, contralto Patricia Leonard is an admirable Fairy Queen, stern on the outside but soft within. When speaking she sometimes amusingly summons up the inflections of the late Dame Edith Evans. Barbara Lilley's Iolanthe and Jane Metcalfe's Phyllis are acceptable but not outstanding. Metcalfe needs to work still on her diction when singing. And why doesn't Lilley use the prescribed veil in her encounter with the Lord Chancellor, who is supposed not to recognize...
Interestingly, Nannen had himself found the June 8 cover excessive and ordered it scrapped, but not before 1.3 million copies had been printed; the substitute was not much different: two naked dancers on a nightclub stage in St. Pauli, Hamburg's red-light district. Nonetheless, he protests that Stern (meaning Star) has been unfairly thrust into the company of the girlie press. He notes that the magazine ran nearly naked women on its cover only five times...
...many West German women accepted nudity in serious magazines as a sign of emancipation, not exploitation. But West German feminists have been at least a decade behind their U.S. counterparts. Only this year did a West German woman fight and win the first equal-pay lawsuit. With the Stern suit, says Schwarzer, "we have set into motion a change of consciousness...