Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Special Resources. If the Guarneri is indeed Budapest's heir, it could not have been more properly anointed. It was founded at Vermont's Marlboro Music Festival at the suggestion of the Budapest's own second violinist, Alexander Schneider; its name was supplied by Budapest Violist Boris Kroyt, who had once played with a now defunct European quartet called the Guarneri (after the 18th century Italian violinmaker). Despite its distinguished sponsorship, the quartet's success is the result of its own special musical resources. First Violinist Arnold Steinhardt, 32, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), darkly...
...went on to progressive Bennington College in Vermont. The painting she contributed to a Bennington Alumni Art exhibition in a Manhattan art gallery in May 1950 was an amateurish pastiche of her Bennington teachers, Picasso and Art Students League. Clement Greenberg, who came to the opening, thought it was terrible, and told the artist so. Then, naturally, he had to invite her down to Greenwich Village for a drink...
...look-so that if you have an eye, you develop it. That's what we did," she recalls. "And every so often, we would go off with paintboxes and folding easels-not as camp, but as serious passion. To try and get some farm or field in Vermont or New Jersey onto the canvas looking exactly as it did, within the limits of our quasi-Impressionist style...
Usury Ceilings. In many states, certain types of loans are becoming almost unavailable because of the low ceilings on interest rates set by usury laws. Margin loans for stock purchases are drying up in such places as Vermont and New Hampshire. In Michigan, which has a 7% usury limit, unincorporated businessmen and partnerships can no longer legally borrow at a rate that lenders will accept. Illinois lenders shun home loans because of the state's 7% ceiling; now the legislature is moving to up the limit...
...weekend of golf, New England has three courses that rank among the best in the nation. First is the Equinox in Manchester, Vermont, the greatest of New England's mountain courses. It's part of the Equinox Hotel, a comfortable spot to spend the weekend...