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...devouring the scores of Don Giovanni, Die Walkure and Pelleas et Melisande. He conceived a lifelong fascination with "all things mysterious and marvelous," and found that musical sounds gave him inner visions of colors; once, he got a stomach ache while watching a ballet because the violet hue of the lighting clashed so badly with the tonality of G major...
...ghastly?' Eddy [Sackville-West] rings me up and says, 'Isn't this hell?' Margot Oxford rings me up and says, 'Now, Harold, you must agree he is a great man.' I say, 'Not at all.' 'You are as bad as Violet [Bonham Carter],' she snaps; 'he is the greatest Englishman that ever lived.'" For all his preoccupation with ominous world events, Nicolson still found time to visit the Cambridge Union for a debate with Stephen Spender on the subject...
...star of the film was clearly the chorus; and the whole production seemed to be organized around the chorus as a focal core. They sang beautifully together and were right on pitch. Violet Teass wrote the fine choral chants. And Henry Hallstrom's extensive musical score, played by 21 members of the National Symphony Orchestra, was unusually distinguished and carefully synchronized. No less expert was the chorus' dancing of Eleanor Struppa's choreography. Executed with precision, the dancing adapted most effectively the modern Martha Graham stylistic approach...
...commands an extraordinary view of the 232-acre campus, with its green mall and red tile roofs, of the capital, ringed by lush farm lands, and, off to the west, of the mist-mantled hills whose purple hue prompted Storyteller O. Henry to christen Austin the "City of a Violet Crown." Whitman had visited the tower ten days before in the company of a brother, and had taken it all in. Today, though, he had no time for the view; he was too intent upon his deadly work...
Fashioned from steel and concrete and reminiscent of the arms-out stretched statue of Christ on Rio de Janeiro's Corcovado Mountain, the 67-ft.-high "Christ of the Ozarks" is visible ten miles away, will soon be illuminated at night by blue, violet and purple spot lights. Why did Smith put it up? "A vision in my own heart," he says, "of wanting to see a statue of Jesus Christ rise in monumental splendor." And, ah, another reason: Smith plans to use the statue as a grave marker for his wife and himself, is having a cemetery prepared...