Word: lavishness
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Though Henze's melodies were somewhat diffuse, critics were impressed with the lavish production put on by the Bavarian State Opera which featured Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Soprano Ingeborg Bremert, and they were unanimous in their praise. Said the authoritative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Henze has arrived at the point of decision. All the lessons which he learned from Verdi, Berg, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Britten and Weill have been absorbed in his tremendously creative feeling for sounds and his sense of the dramatic." This mixture of old and new, of atonality and traditional harmony, was precisely what Henze was after...
What the captain wanted the News to be is laid out in lavish detail in Tell It to Sweeney (Doubleday; $4.95), an affectionate excursion through the News's past conducted by its longtime Drama Critic John Chapman. (The title derives from a series of early News advertisements that projected the paper's strong working-class appeal and urged Manhattan merchants to "Tell it to Sweeney; the Stuyvesants will take care of themselves.") How well the captain's survivors have fulfilled their pledge to run things his way can be measured in the continued success of the nation...
...lavish White House dinner for Bourguiba, Kennedy delivered a toast that likened the evening's guest to George Washington. In reply, Bourguiba raised a glass of lukewarm orange juice to say that he was flattered by the comparison, then added that his real hero was Abraham Lincoln, because, like him, "I found my country deeply divided, and for 25 years I have struggled to achieve the unification of my people...
...remove their hats when gambling, and forbade them to brawl or use naughty language; and Richard Albert Canfield, the biggest single gambler of them all, who rose from a $2-a-week shipping clerk to owner of the Saratoga Club, one of the world's biggest and most lavish gambling houses, became a top collector of Whistler paintings (including a portrait of Canfield that Whistler called His Reverence...
...book is published by the respected Paris house of Gallimard, dedicated to Minister of Culture Andre Malraux, endorsed enthusiastically by Picasso. The typography is meticulous, the illustrations lavish. And the subject is a man who never was, Painter Jusep Torres Campalans...