Return of the food book reviews face a dreary scene
New York Times food book notices survey a flood of titles on organic cooking and natural foods. Critics praise some elementary shopping guides and historical cookery anthologies while noting a gap in practical hands‑on craft and flavors. The piece highlights The Cornucopia and other works, including facsimiles and regional histories, and closes with a Christmas plug for children’s cookbooks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Hess
N.Y. Times News Service
New York
America
Nikki
David Goldbeck
Harper & Row
Warner Paperback
England
Judith
Marguerite Shalett Herman
Arno Press
Fannie Farmer’s
Boston Cooking School
Rodale
Rodale Press
Deaf Smith
Macmillan
Wrest Orton
Weston
Tuttle
Rutland
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Max Alth
Funk & Wagnall’s
Pierre Androet
Harper’s Magazine Press
Reservoir Street
Cambridge
Mass
Best Sellers Fiction Highlights from 1970s era list
A catalog of top fiction and nonfiction best sellers featuring Graham Greene Mary Stewart Lawrence Sanders Gore Vidal Thornton Wilder Morris West Paul Erdman Jimmy Breslin Thomas Tryon Jacqueline Susann Lillian Hellman Joseph Wambaugh Howard Cosell Alistair Cooke Nigel Nicolson Sam Levenson J.B. West Jean Nidetch and others. It includes notable titles across mystery romance and social commentaries alongside weight loss guides and cookbooks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham Greene
Mary Stewart
Lawrence Sanders
Burr
Gore Vidal
Theophilus North
Thornton Wilder the Salamander
Morris West
Paul E. Erdman
Amen
Jimmy Breslin
Thomas Tryon
Jacqueline Susann
Alex Comfort
Mildred Newman
Lillian Hellman
Joseph Wambaugh
Cosell
Howard Cosell
Alistair Cooke
America
Nigel Nicolson
Sam Levenson
The
White House
J.B. West
Jean Nidetch
Poets Turn to Prose in Mixed Book Reviews
Book reviews cover The Poet's Story edited by Howard Moss, Killers of the Seas by Edward R. Ricciuti, Dealing With Cheats by A D Livingston, and Mislaid in Hollywood by Joe Hyams. The volume with poets experimenting in fiction yields strong Millay and Jacobson pieces, but many attempts feel pedestrian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Moss
Macmillan
America
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Josephine Jacobson
Edward R. Ricciuti
Walker
A.D. Livingston
Lippincott
Hollywood
Joe Hyams
Wyden
Ellie Sommer
Hyams
Bach Christmas Oratorio at Williams College thrice sung
Two identical Sunday services at 4 and 7 30 p m in Thompson Memorial Chapel feature Bach Christmas Oratorio music from the J S Bach cantatas with the Williams Choral Society Baroque Festival Orchestra and soloists conducted by Kenneth Roberts The production includes 36 choral singers 22 instrumentalists from Berkshire Albany orchestras and soloists Carol Randles Jon Humphrey and John D Armand sharing duties with local readers and community participants There is no charge or reserved seating as the Christmas Vespers draw grows each year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamstown
Mass
Williams College Thompson Memorial
Newman Association
Williams Choral Society
Baroque Festival Orchestra
Kenneth Roberts
John D. Eusden
Robert Stafford
Roberts
Heaven
Bach
University of Massachusetts
Berkshire
Albany
Carol Randles
Jon Humphrey
John D’ Armand
Williams
Canada
Canadian Opera Company
Skidmore College
College of St. Rose
Saratoga-Potsdam Choral Institute
Philadelphia Orchestra
Cleveland
Philadelphia
John D’armand
Prof. Roberts
Smith College
Umass
WFCR
Connecticut Valley
Arts events across colleges this week in Vermont and New York
A roundup of holiday concerts and performances from Bennington College Williams College Windham College UVM Pittsfield and Schenectady area venues. Highlights include Mozart Beethovan Schumann works piano recital Dunes theatre piece Bach Christmas Oratorio Service of Carols and multiple exhibitions and a planetarium show. Concerts at UVM Williams College Bennington College and Berkshire Community College run Dec 8–14 with admission where noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
David Levine
Bennington College
Webern
Stephen H. Horenstein
Commons Theatre
Barendil the Mariner
Commons
Pittsfield
Mass
Berkshire Ballet
Germantown Dance Theatre
Koussevitzsky Arts Center
Berkshire Community College
West Hartford
Conn
Edward Rice
North Adams
North Adams State College
Venable Hall
Schenectady
N.Y
Schenectady Museum
Kohoutek
First Complete French William Tell Recordings Debut
UPI reports a rich opera season with Angels new five record set SES-3793 of Rossini William Tell the first complete stereo in original French with L Gardelli conducting the Ambrosian Chorus and Royal Philharmonic. Notables include Gabriel Bacquier James Gedda Montserrat Caballó Mady Mesple and Louis Hendrikx. Columbia issues reissues of Met performances of Puccini La Boheme and Donizetti Lucia de Lammermoor with Sayao Tucker Baccaloni McCracken and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
Gioacchino Rossini
Metropolitan Opera
Puccini
Rossini
Schiller
Angel
Lamberto Gardelli
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Gabriel Bacquier
Tell
Nicholas Gedda
Montserrat Caballo
Mathilde
Mady Mesple
Louis Hendrikx
Jemmy
Gesler
Columbia
New Pianist Beth Eisenberg Debuts With Buster Keaton Festival
Beth Eisenberg, a Bennington College sophomore, headlines MAUHS Thanksgiving weekend during the Buster Keaton Film Festival. She improvises 1920s style silent movie scores, recalling storms, trains, chases, and rescues as part of a two-woman ensemble with Dee Harper. Beth teaches piano winter term at Jennings Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beth Eisenberg
Buster Keaton
Mauhs
Community Arts Association
Beth
Bennington College
Merce Cunningham
New York
Second Congregational Church
Bennington
Dee Harper
Dee
Duke Ellington
Harold Arlen
Cole Porter
Charlie Mingus
Aretha Franklin
Lionel Nowak
Jennings Hall
Ben
Nington College
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Vermont
Ors Diplomat Pictures
Millco
Werewolf
Washington
Sat
Sun
Gene Stratton-Porter
Williams College
Thompson Memorial Chapel
Chapin Hall
Putney Windham College
Windham Community Orchestra
Windham Madrical
Fine Arts
Windham College
Burlington
Judy Collins
University of Vermont
Memorial Auditorium
Lane Series
Waterman Building
UVM
Visual Arts
Peter Arno
New Yorker
Fred Rector
Goodwin
Troy
Leonard Webber
Rensselaer County Council For the Arts
Wilbur G. Landrey
Arnold
James Joyce
Joyce
John O’sullivan
Gedda
Grimm
Lore Segal
Maurice Sendak
Randall Jarrell
Minerm Books
Monument Plaza
Safari
Rick Olsen
Roaring Branch
Main ST
Wee
Dustin Hoffman
James Caan
Sally Kellerman
Slither
This
Hudson's Bay
Master Charge
BankAmericard
Wgolens
North and Adams
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