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...MESLAY (June 28-July 4), near Tours, uses as an auditorium a massive barn built by monks in 1220. The excellent acoustics of the barn's oak and chestnut structure will set off performances by Russian Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, Moscow's Borodin Quartet, and London's Royal Opera singing Britten's Curlew River...
...PEACE. Though it is never easy to shrink an oak back to an acorn, Phoenix Theater's production of the mammoth Tolstoy classic is surprisingly dramatic. In this play, and in an alternate offering, Man and Superman, individual performances are submerged in beautiful ensemble playing...
...Their Pedestals. The oak towering above all is Henry Moore (TIME cover, Sept. 21, 1959). Around him have now sprung a turbulent group of younger sculptors. First to appear in the immediate postwar years were Reg Butler, Kenneth Armitage and Lynn Chadwick, whose vaguely figurative iron and bronze forms spoke to stress, anxiety and despair. Succeeding them is another generation that reacts against what one, Anthony Caro, calls their predecessors' "bandaged and wounded art." The wraps are off, the postures have come down from their pedestals and plinths, and the new British sculptors (see following color pages) are forging...
...PEACE. Despite the difficulty of shrinking an oak back into an acorn, this Phoenix Theater production of the mammoth Tolstoy classic is surprisingly dramatic. In this play, and in an alternate offering, Man and Superman, individual acting egos are submerged in beautiful ensemble playing...
Rockefeller looked down from the wall of Jersey Standard's oak-lined boardroom in Rockefeller Center, President Michael L. Haider (rhymes with wider), 60, for the first time tested the huge leather chair of the chairman and chief executive. As expected, chair and chairman seemed to fit each other nicely...