Miss McCarthy’s Birds of America signals shift in fiction
New York AP profile of Mary McCarthy, author of Birds of America, noting her return to fiction since 1963 Miss McCarthy explains her male lead Peter Levi and the novel’s environmental and antiwar themes. She discusses research in Rome, writing process, and the momentum of chapters.
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Mary McCarthy
New York
Birds of America
Paris
James West
Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development
Vassar
Sorbonne
Peter
Saigon
Hanoi
Miss McCarthy
Park Avenue
Kevin McCarthy
Vietnam
Peter Levi
Rome
America
Patti Jo
Purlie
Melba Moore
Determination to become star lands Patti Jo Purlie role
Patti Jo, 22, won the Lutiebelle part in Purlie after a Miami newspaper review caught producer Philip Rose's eye. Born Ethel Patricia Demps in Otter Creek Florida, she studied at Florida A M and built a nightclub act with careful savings and perseverance.
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Land ‘Purlie
Miss Moore
Patti Jo
Purlie
Broadway
Miami
Philip Rose
Lutiebelle
Parlie Victorious
Otter Creek
Fla
Ethel Patricia Demps
Jane McKenzie
DeLand
Florida A & M
Tallahassee
Demps
Barry Smith
Variety
Ghermans
New York
Lullebelle
Sydney Artistry Needs Funds to Stay Continental Heart
Irving Kolodin notes Sydney’s central role in Australia’s arts scene as Bennelong Point’s grand project nears completion. He cites Canberra as government hub and Melbourne as a nerve center while Sydney, aided by New South Wales, drives the nation’s artistic future through the Opera Company and its touring Opera Theater network.
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Sydney
New South Wales
Australia
Great Northern
Sydney Opera’s New Hall Shapes Australian Arts Ambitions
The article surveys new concert halls and theaters across Australia, including Adelaide’s festival theater and Melbourne’s concert hall, linked to Sydney’s forthcoming $100 million opera house. It praises Australian Opera’s potential while urging rapid growth in personnel, orchestra, and funding to meet international expectations by March 1973.
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Hall
World Opera
New York City
Metropolitan Florentine Paintings Shown At The Met
The Met displays all 135 Florentine school paintings this summer in an inclusive exhibit led by Everett Fahy. The show coincides with a 234 page Florentine catalogue by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth Gardner, highlighting attribution changes, new identifications, and donor lists.
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New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Everett Fahy
Fahy
Florence
Florentine
Federico Zeri
Elizabeth E. Gardner
Museum
Current best sellers and notable nonfic titles listed
A mixed list of fiction and nonfi tion titles including The Passions of the Mind Penmarric QB VII The New Centurions The Drifters Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Future Shock The Female Eunuch The Sensuous Man Boss and related authorized names.
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Stone “Penmarric
Howard
QB VII
Uris
New Centurions
Wambaugh
The
Drifters
Miche
Wounded Knee
Toffler
Martha’s Vineyard Cookbook highlights island dishes and history
New England flavors meet island heritage in the Martha’s Vineyard Cook Book by Louise Tate King and Jean Stewart Wexler. The authors, residents of the island, present a mouth watering recipe collection set against its history and terrain with Grambs Miller’s drawings.
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Grambs Miller
Martha’s Vineyard
New England
Louise Tate King
Jean Stewart Wexler
Harper & Row
Martha's Vineyard
Cape Cod
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John Gherman
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Fine
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Saturday Review
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Melbourne
Sir Bernard Heinze
Steam
England
Bennelong Point
the Music Box
Prospect
Adelaide
Brisbane
Conservatorium
Sydney Symphony
Puccini
Tor
Edward Downes
Covent Garden
Sydney Opera
Metropolitan Museum
Giotto
Fra Angelico
Botticelli
Teuoypa Pen
Berlinghiero
Royko
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