Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ Albert Camus, Herbert R. Lottman American Caesar, William Manchester ∙ American Singers, Whitney Balliett ∙ In Memory Yet Green, Isaac Asimov ∙ Letters of Flannery O'Connor: The Habit of Being, edited by Sally Fitzgerald Thoughts in a Dry Season, Gerald Brenan
AMERICAN SINGERS by Whitney Balliett Oxford; 178 pages...
...play up the soloist, adding a flourish here or a rhythmic twist there, never straying from the background. Whitney Balliett is his critical counterpart. Jazz aficionados tend to go heavy on the adjectives; Balliett favors a deceptively simple style that illuminates the musician instead of the writer...
...only "big" movement of the 1960s with an aesthetic that continues to be felt in the 1979 Whitney Biennial is, oddly enough, minimalism−a style made up of simple, primary, uninflected forms, usually garnished with tangled masses of oversubtilized criticism. Less, these days, does not seem to be more, especially when the work in question is yet another empty grid by Sol LeWitt, or something like Richard Serra's Toll, 1978-79−three walls of a gallery enclosure painted dead, oily black. In the past, some of Serra's sculptures have been memorable, their slabs...
...Glenn Fine sank four crucial free throws in the last 12 seconds of the Harvard-Yale basketball game to stave off a tremendous comeback attempt by the Elis and preserve the Crimson basketball team's second consecutive one-point victory in two nights, 80-79, here at the Payne-Whitney...