Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technician from Yale, taking a summer course in music, lived up to his fame for facile improvisation. Every time that something went wrong, the cry of "Mc Goo, fix it" went up. And he did. He manufactured a stage plug out of a piece of wood and scraps of copper wire, and he managed to rewire half the Harvard Union in an afternoon...
...taken down with amazing efficiency, since the cast party in Belmont could not start until this job was finished. The entire set was torn down within an hour by a thirsty swarm that gathered at the scent of "Party-party." An orange trailer piled too high with wood and people careened off into the night, and the last remnants of the party were seen at Cronin's 24 hours later--hungry at last...
...Host. Quiet and intense, Wieland differs from his tempestuous grandfather in temperament, but not in artistic outlook. Both stagecraft innovators in their day, Richard liked his opera gorgeously colored and realistically detailed; Wieland likes to keep his decor schematic and sparse, consisting more of lines and lights than of wood and canvas. Traditionalist critics sometimes say that he keeps things simple out of a lack of imagination, or to save money. But his latest production looked as if it might convert the last holdouts among the traditionalists; almost certainly the Old Man would have been one of the converts...
...pioneers in U.S. abstraction, John Ferren, says the movement began as an instinctive agreement on a set of negatives. The painters turned against regional painting ("The Iowa farms painted by Grant Wood seemed to us like dream fantasy images'"), against the rigid structure of cubism, the cliché-ridden images of surrealism-and against the Government-commissioned mural painting of WPA. Above all they were revolting against the awesome dominance of Paris painting and the long shadow of Pablo Picasso. They were searching for something new, not as a school, but as individuals following nearby paths in the same...
...BATON FOR THE CONDUCTOR (219 pp.)-T. L W. Hubbard-Houghfon Mifflin ($3). ] "You see," the young man told the psychiatrist, "[my uncle] began as Sir Henry Wood. Then he passed through a Beecham phase, a Boult phase and a Sargent phase . . . After that [he] began adding new tricks with each conductor he studied...