Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Memory & Spirit. Short, slight and urbane, Leonid is the younger brother of a better-known artist, Eugene Berman (TIME, May 24). He long ago dropped the Berman from his signature to avoid being confused with his brother, whom he followed to the U.S. three years ago. Married to Harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe, he lives in Manhattan, paints mostly from memory. "When I was young," he says, "I painted outdoors and after three or four hours I was lost. But the more I am getting older the more I can paint without a subject. I made a drawing from nature for Port...
...laws. But the laws themselves must be changed. Their wording is so strong that it often takes courage to extract and use the power of discretion that is nevertheless implied within them. If the law said that certain classes of aliens "may" be excluded, it would be easier to avoid such fumbles as the Emmanuel case...
...first Protestants, Steere says, deliberately swept away many of the outward forms of Christianity. Emphasis on visible authority and external practices had brought the Roman Catholic Church, they thought, to Pharisaism and travesty; they hoped to avoid the same pitfall by stressing an inward spirituality. Instead of relying on liturgical formulas and the "outward priestly act of the sprinkling of holy water," they hoped to permeate each moment of everyday life with devotion to God. "One could meditate on Bible verses as one shoed a horse, or patched a pair of trousers, or planed a door." But over the centuries...
There are nice performances, beginning with Maurice Evans' reciting of a sprightly modern prologue. As Tony Lumpkin, the celebrated booby of the piece, Ezra (Henry Aldrich) Stone is amusing but cannot avoid the booby trap of badly overdoing things. Celeste Holm and Brian Aherne are an engaging pair of lovers, and Burl Ives a good solid 18th Century father. Almost everybody, indeed, acts agreeably; the hitch is that virtually no two people act in the same style...
...voice into movie sound tracks, sang in nightclubs and in Los Angeles synagogues and churches. In 1943, he got his first big break with San Francisco's crack opera company. Last summer, after a concert tour of the U.S., he decided to try his luck in Europe, "to avoid the inevitable fate of young American singers who wait hat in hand at the Metropolitan...