Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SYMPHONIES AND FANFARES FOR THE KING'S SUPPER (Nonesuch). The king in question was Louis XIV, who wanted music for every occasion. The supper "symphonies" by Michel-Richard de Lalande are stately, danceable airs. There are also fanfares and military marches by Jean-Baptiste Lully, the musical dictator of the court, and an engaging trio sonata for violins by Francois Couperin. The highly stylized little pieces are given a bright, clear reading by the Collegium Musicum de Paris under Roland Douatte...
...rises at 6 a.m., puts in a 17-hour day fixing his own fences, keeping his own books, and tending to the innumerable details of his spread. He wears blue jeans or big floppy bombachas instead of fancy riding habits, generally sees his family for one meal a day-supper-and often spends his evenings driving to a nearby town to hear a lecture on modern farming methods. There may be a TV set on the place, but the gauchos are the ones who watch it. Says one estanciero, "TV is the difference between keeping your best men and losing...
...live ones, who almost casually share the vehicle with the corpse. On a canal bank in Chuong Thien province, the body of a Communist guerrilla sprawls among the water lilies. On a track through a swamp in Hau Nghia province, a young Vietnamese rifleman happily plucks a duck for supper, white feathers sticking to his mud-spattered battle dress. At an isolated Special Forces post near the Laotian frontier, a supply helicopter arrives carrying, in a sling under its belly, two bewildered cows...
...grounds that they are not authorized by the Bible. In 1524 the town council methodically began to put into effect Zwingli's reformation, outlined in his 67 theses. Statues and crucifixes were stripped from the churches, and by 1525 his German service of the Lord's Supper had replaced the Latin Mass...
...hotel for business and a couple of beach boys for pleasure; a renegade reverend (Richard Burton) expelled from his parish in Virginia for rutting in the rectory; a roundheeled teen-ager (Sue Lyon) who wishes she had been there; a peripatetic painter (Deborah Kerr) who sketches for her supper...