Word: torch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the leadership of Daniel Seltzer, then acting director of the Loeb, the Shakespeare Festival had brought in a whole new group of undergraduates, relegating the old club of entrenched semi-professionals to minor roles and inbred cocktail parties. Seltzer had passed the torch from one generation to another, and the older crowd wasn't having any of it. They talked behind his back, mailed hastily drafted protest letters to the Crimson, thought about or actually wrote works of vengeance like The Pageant of the Beasts...
...makes a moving thing," says Sculptor George Rickey, "one is always surprised, no matter how preconceived the design, at the movement itself. It seems to come from elsewhere. The pliers only made the arrival possible." In recent years, Rickey's pliers - along with welding torch and sheet-metal cutters - have produced whole families of curiously moving metal sculptures that gambol and gimbal in the wind, slicing segments of time like pendulums or spinning until the sunlight splinters into a spectral blur (see color...
Died. Harold Talburt, 71, chief editorial cartoonist of Scripps-Howard Newspapers from 1922 to 1963, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for his "The Light of Asia" (a fist labeled Japan grasping a torch of burning peace treaties), but is best remembered for his "John Q. Public,"a poor soul reduced to wearing a barrel after paying his taxes; of cancer; in Bethesda...
...STRANGERS (Columbia). If Eydie Gorme isn't careful, she's liable to set the world on fire. On this album she lights the torch, contrives not to drench it with tears, and the result is fairly flaming...
...World War II.*It was particularly apt at a time when the nation was involved in its biggest and most bitterly disputed venture since Korea. In South Viet Nam, that involvement led last week to outbursts of anti-Americanism as students put the U.S. consulate in Hue to the torch and hoisted the Vietnamese flag. Nine Buddhist monks and nuns, women and teen-agers burned themselves alive to protest the U.S. presence and its support of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and the military Directory...