Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...another he appeared in white coveralls and went through a marvelously loose-limbed parody of vaudeville-style dancing, with broad suggestions of Fred Astaire. The piece contained few outright ballet laughs, but it was distinguished by the clean, sculptural style that is the mark of Cunningham's best work...
Cunningham professes to be utterly bewildered by complaints that his work is obscurely symbolic. "Symbols," says he, "don't interest me. You see a chair strapped on my back. Can't we just say, 'How strange...
...Gunther Schuller's Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee had its premiere with the visiting Minneapolis Symphony under Conductor Antal Dorati. Each of Schuller's studies took its name from a Klee painting, tried to preserve the rhythms of the work and in some cases the colors. Antique Harmonies, for instance, is a canvas of overlapping blocks, ranging from near black through amber, ochre and brown to brighter colors; to Schuller, it suggested a hushed, dense background of woodwinds, interrupted by "the brighter yellow of the trumpets and high strings." Klee's famed Twittering Machine, which...
...part of the new look in education coverage, the New York Times has three fulltime education reporters working under Education Editor Fred M. Hechinger, who last week landed three education stories on Page One (one morning last week, the Times devoted three inside pages to education news). The New York Herald Tribune's Terry Ferrer (sister of Actor Mel Ferrer) has a staff of two, and last week the Trib gave full play to the beginning of her exhaustive, five-part study of U.S. colleges and universities. On the Minneapolis Star, the education beat is covered in depth...
Nothing to Lose. Moore's low-pressure approach may be the product of grinding backstage work with Producer Bob Banner and Chief Writer Vincent Bogart, but the end result is still the man himself. He is always the skimpy (5 ft. 6½ in.), easy-going guy who has been working at the trade of entertaining ever since high school, when his name was Thomas Garrison Morfit and he was writing a musical comedy back in Baltimore, almost 30 years ago. Even then Garry was such an accomplished gagman that a fan named F. Scott Fitzgerald came backstage...