Word: tautly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gripping nightmare of a tortured spirit. Commissioned by the Washington Opera Society and given its world première last week at Washington's Lisner Auditorium, Bomarzo is based on a prizewinning novel by Buenos Aires Art Critic Manuel Mujica Lainez, who also wrote the libretto. In 15 taut, hallucinatory scenes that take place mostly in the mind of Pierfrancesco Orsini, Renaissance Duke of Bomarzo, it flashes back over the events of the Duke's "secret life, which like the hump on my back, encumbered my soul...
...largely self-made-and devalued his own gifts. His formal education ended after a year at the Kentucky Military Institute, where he mastered little more than the soldierly bearing that carried him through life. He taught himself, imperfectly, the art of poetry and, with more success, how to write taut and economical prose. Then he squandered the education on venomous hack work for West Coast literary journals and as a columnist for William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. He never wrote anything longer than a short story; he was not in the habit of writing a paragraph when...
...daring was exactly what the Royal Danish Ballet was looking for. Typical of the new look he has given the Danes is his flashy new production of Bartok's nightmarish The Miraculous Mandarin, which has been running in Copenhagen for the past few weeks. A series of taut opening scenes, ominously underscored by Bartok's crashing, nervous music, sets the sordid story: a leering, undulating streetwalker lures her men to a shadowy room where a trio of gangsters beat and rob them. The last victim is a hideously ugly, stooped Chinese mandarin, danced by Flindt himself. After...
Those old school ties are not always as taut as alma mater would like, especially at solicitation time: about 5,000,000 alumni of U.S. colleges might just as well be in hiding as far as their schools know. In their pursuit of alms among alumni, college fund raisers are now finding missing grads by employing private gumshoes-the same kind that hunt down missing husbands, debtors, stockholders, heirs, and even swains who swindle widows. The detective work is sometimes hilariously effective. When found, one graduate of Pratt Institute came across handsomely, but pleaded: "Please don't send...
Hard evidence of that fact emerged on two fronts last week. Columbia Pictures, immersed in a taut fight with dissident stockholders, won a pledge from the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, which had recently acquired a 20% interest in the company, that it would stand by the present management. That beat off the challenge of the takeover-minded dissidents, at least for the time being. At the same time, small but glowing Seven Arts Production Ltd., headed by ex-Tire Executive Eliot Hyman, announced that it would purchase 1,600,000 shares of Warner Bros., giving...