Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Loewe thinks of music in terms of color, once turned out compositions that reflected what he saw on an artist's canvases. For visitors he will still improvise "colors" on the piano, turning out a peacock- blue sonata or red march from three notes offered him at random. Without lapsing into triteness or parody, he has an extraordinary ability to suggest geographical locale, whether it is Scotland, Spain, or the American West, which has never been more eloquently described in melody than in I Talk to the Trees from Paint Your Wagon. He is sometimes accused of being derivative...
Between these little tidbits of color, the assembled press had to find other diversions. Ray Scherer of NBC News sat in the press telephone room, watching himself on tape on three of the four sets. Only important television developments commanded universal attention: one was Nixon's almost-concession at 3:15 A.M. before an animalistic California crowd which one reporter said turned his stomach. The delay tried the pateience of everyone...
...Personally," Painter Jean Dubuffet once declared, "I believe very much in values of savagery. I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness." No one can accuse Dubuffet of being false to his credo, for his paintings (see color) often seem to be the work of a savage or a madman-or a child. They have caused gasps of shock and hoots of derision; yet today a Dubuffet canvas can command as much as $30,000, and among critics it is now the thing to say that Dubuffet himself is the most important painter to come out of postwar France...
...Perry Como Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Perry's guests: Clooney and Rooney. Color...
Johnson, in a meandering, crowd-rousing talk, told the people how the Democratic party was the party of "all the people," how the Democrats were going to insure that "all Americans will enjoy the blessings of liberty--regardless of race, creed or color," how three Massachusetts boys had died at the Alamo, how no one had asked Captain Joe Kennedy and Wilfred Wylie from Fort Worth what church they attended when they went out to die "so that all of us could be free," and what a pleasure it was "to stand beside, to stand with, to stand behind, that...