Word: fullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where the Riviera is loud and brash, its less renowned rival Biarritz is reserved and circumspect. Drowsing in the winter sun, discreet Biarritz has its full share of ménages à trois, lurid and perverted personalities, titled lovers and mistresses of high & low degree. But scandal, however it flourishes behind the hedges that screen the big villas, is never to be flaunted in the swank drinking places. Thus it has been ever since the days of Britain's Edward VII, who set the tone for Biarritz and usually remembered to draw the blinds...
Laid in a Southern town, The Member portrays the intimate relationship of three essentially lonely people: a motherless twelve-year-old girl, a middle-aged Negro servant and a small boy. Gawky, bewildered, self-dramatizing Frankie Addams, full of emotions a size too large for childhood, a size too small for adolescence, yearns to be somebody, to count with people, to belong. Life-tempered, mellow Berenice Sadie Brown, the Addams' cook, who has loved one man and married four, is as resigned as Frankie is agitated; little John Henry, though forever asking questions, has asked none yet of life...
Wrote one Louisville critic: "It opens an entirely new field for the contemporary dancer . . . and places him on a commercial and artistic footing with the piano, instrumental and vocal soloist." To sallow, dark-eyed Dancer Graham, it was "a great challenge . . . This must be a special work with a full symphony. It can't be reduced to anything I can take on tour. But other symphony orchestras may be interested...
...admiration was understandable. Inquiring around in Local 802, 66-year-old Cellist Abram Goutkin had found an orchestra-full of retired symphony musicians who had yielded their chairs to younger men but were by no means ready to quit playing. Onetime New York Symphony First Trumpeter Vincent C. Buono, 74, and such 78-year-old gaffers as Violinist Fred Schaefer and Violist Solomon Pressman were enthusiastic about Gout-kin's idea of forming an old fellows' outfit. Sixty others were rounded up in no time...
...employees' council to keep working conditions up to snuff. So well does the system work that the 800-man Easthampton plant now has 5,000 job applications in its files and a labor turnover of only 2%. Everyone at Stanley belongs to what they call the B.C.H. Club. Full name: Bright, Cheerful & Happy...