Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plague-stricken city, in a deserted street, where doors are sealed with a scrawled cross and "God Save Us," two citizens meet and, at a safe distance, talk. "I have a gun, be careful, stay back." One finds he knows a friend of the other's, newly dead. "Then I am a dead man." Enter a nun, robed all in flowing white, carrying a little white case with a red cross on it. "Sister, help me." She swirls up to first citizen, kisses him on the mouth: "Yes, you are a dead man." She kisses second citizen...
What was on Beethoven's mind during those mundane moments when he was not working on the Ninth Symphony or the C Sharp Minor Quartet? Women, for one thing. The wife of a certain conductor, Beethoven once confided to a friend, had "a magnificent fanny from the side." Another concern in Beethoven's bachelor household was how to obtain writing paper, domestic help and food-fish, oysters and Hungarian wines were his special favorites-as cheaply as possible. That was important, since Beethoven was one of the greatest penny pinchers who ever lived. He was delighted to receive...
...telephone call. Yet they make clear what Beethoven was thinking about, and where he occasionally wrote in the books himself-usually for a comment that he did not want others in the room to overhear-the blunt style is unmistakable. Nephew Karl brings home a somewhat seedy friend, and Beethoven jots down: "I don't like your choice of this friend at all. Poverty deserves sympathy, but not without exceptions...
...lilting show tunes by Balanchine's longtime friend, George Gershwin. The backdrop is a softly focused photo of the Manhattan skyline, suggesting the unreal city of cities in countless half-remembered Astaire musicals. The casual costumes look as if they might have dressed the working chorus in a hundred would-be Show Boats that never made it down the Hudson. Only the opening and closing numbers, Strike Up the Band and / Got Rhythm, have so far been orchestrated for a brassy pit band. The rest of the evening the dancers were accompanied by Pianist Gordon Boelzner, plunking away...
...that her commitment is a virtuous aversion to political language "designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." Like Orwell, Adler refuses the facile role of advocate or judge. In the trial of history she is simply a friend of the court. Luck and journalistic instinct informed her of tendencies just before they became movements. She was with Martin Luther King in Selma and Stokely Carmichael in Mississippi. She was in Israel during the Six-Day War, and in Chicago for an initial New Left conference...