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...thing, resign themselves to at least two years of an R.O.T.C. course, since this is compulsory at all state universities, and they must thereby accept a campus atmosphere tinged for all with regimentation and militarism. ("It is disconcerting," said one professor, "to be talking about Plato and hear 'tramp, tramp, tramp' outside the window...
Today Marcks lives in a small house on the outskirts of Cologne. White-haired, blue-eyed and erect, he rises each morning at six for a long tramp through the fields. He returns to spend six hours a day, six days a week in his studio. "Nowadays," he says, "my body rebels at longer hours. Physically I'm declining, but artistically I've only recently arrived. Musicians mature first; sculptors last...
...Skelton Show (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS-TV) is a summer replacement revue (for Arthur Godfrey) that indicates that some of Comedian Skelton's best writers may be on vacation too. While Skelton's characterizations of the tramp, Freddie the Freeloader, and the goon, Clem Kiddlehopper, were pretty much up to par on the first program, some of his straight monologue material was merely second-rate. Skelton's first guest was the sugar-coated Pianist Liberace, who 1) mooned interminably through Debussy's Clair de Lune and grinned ecstatically through a Latin rhythm piece, 2) cavorted with...
...Pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio gave a fast-fingered version of Tenderly sprinkled with suave dissonances, the modernist crowd was ready to call it the high point of the festival. But the younger set shrieked louder when hollow-cheeked Gerry Mulligan bellowed and coaxed The Lady Is a Tramp through his big baritone sax. The concert finally ended after midnight with a 20-man jam session that sent the strangest sounds ever heard in Newport floating up to the stars...
...Purple Grapes. What had seemed at first an amiable chore became a daily burden:"There was no fun in it until after the first five years." Now, the job done, she feels "like a tramp" without a job. Alone in the same apartment where she has lived since 1929, she wonders how her poetic restatement of the old La Fontaine truths will fare in the bookstores. Both the difficulties she faced and the quality of her frequent triumphs can be sensed in her freshening of the ancient favorite, The Fox and the Grapes...