Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PORGY AND BESS (RCA Victor) is another case of too much cake for the oven -this time with Leontyne Price towering over both score (excerpted songs) and cast (William Warfield, McHenry Boat-wright). The recording is rich, the singing is fine, and the livin' is easy-at least for those who can bear the thought of Price singing under Skitch Henderson's baton...
CAUSE FOR WONDER by Wright Morris. 272 pages. Atheneum...
...Wright Morris' lesser and funnier novels, Love Among the Cannibals, some American tourists are marooned in the boiled-water area of Mexico when their great, gaudy auto breaks down. The natives do not bother them, but each morning there is less of the ridiculous vehicle left. The door han dles and the four wheels go first; a day later the sparkplugs, carburetor and windshield; finally the engine block, dashboard and radiator...
...arrange for its proper preservation better now than after I'm gone." So saying, Philanthropist Edgar Kaufmann Jr., 53, deeded Frank Lloyd Wright's incomparable "Falling-water," the famous tiered and cantilevered "house over the waterfall" in Bear Run, Pa., to a Pennsylvania conservation agency, along with 500 surrounding acres and a $500,000 endowment fund...
...version of Indian doctrines in the U.S. in 1920. A California follower recalls that when he met Yogananda, "I knew I had found the essence of life. He had the essence that showed a great peace, a great joy." Since 1955, the sect has been governed by Miss Faye Wright, 49, known in the Fellowship as Daya Mata. Daya Mata joined the sect in Salt Lake City at the age of 17, after Yogananda cured her of a blood disease that had forced her to leave high school. This week she is going to set out on a journey...