Kennedy Center Faces Cost Overrun and Fundraising Push
Washington's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts runs about 40 percent complete with a projected final cost of 61.5 million dollars, up from 45 million. Center chairman Roger Stevens and director William Blair discuss higher construction costs, labor shortages, and a $15 million fundraising shortfall as they push foundations and corporations for support. The project aims for completion in 1970 with a possible grand opening in early 1971.
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UPI
Potomac River
John F. Kennedy
Act of Congress
Center
Roger L. Stevens
William M. Blair
Stevens
Blair
Denmark
Philippines
Italy
New York Harbor
Kennedy
Rogers
Eisenhower
National Cultural Center
Lyndon B Johnson
Center For Kennedy
Congress
Ford Foundation
William MCC. Blair
John F. Kennedy Center For
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Scholarly titles dominate National Book Awards
The National Book Awards honor half scholarly works with prizes in History and Biography, Sciences and more. Winners include Winthrop D. Jordan for White Over Black, R. J. Lifton for Death in Life, and Jerzy Kosinski for Steps. Norman Mailer wins Arts and Letters for The Armies of the Night. Kosinski critiques American society. leaders discuss Nixon’s popularity and a new future.
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Winthrop D. Jordan
University of North Carolina Press
R. J. Lifton
Random House
Hiroshima
Jerzy Kosinski
Poland
Norman Mailer
Arts and Letters
New American Library
Pentagon
Jom Berryman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Kosinski
America
Soviet Union
Mailer
Nixon
Johnson
Crime corner list of mysteries and crime novels reviewed
A roundup of crime and mystery titles with brief notes on plots and authors. Includes The Case of the Dead Ly Diamonds by Christopher Bush, Evergreen Death by James Fraser, Forfeit by Dick Francis, Hes by Arthur H. Lewis, and Homicide Desk from the Saturday Review archive.
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Christopher Bush
Macmillan
Ludovic Travers
London
Super Jewle
The
Yard
James Fraser
Harcourt, Brace & World
Arthur H. Lewis
Bis
Pennsylvania
York County
Elyria Oberlin Arts and Film Calendar Highlights
A multifaceted cultural schedule lists January events in Elyria and Oberlin. Highlights include art shows at Elyria Public Library and Allen Art Museum, film series at Oberlin College Hall Auditorium, and concerts at St. Mary's Church and Finney Chapel. Admission notes indicate some events are free while others charge a fee.
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Elyria Public Schools
Elyria Public Library
Julius Held
Allen Art Museum
Oberlin
Sat. Sun
Satyajit Ray
Oberlin College
Hall Auditorium
Kent State Acapella Chor
Robert H. Foulkes
St. Mary’s Church
Middle Avenue
Elyria
Grigg Fountain
Warner Concert Hall
Sidney Harth
Finney Chapel
Oberlin Orchestra
Robert Baustian
Lorain Public Library
Rapunzel
Scheide
Georgia Todd
Allen Museum of Art
Don Sager
Kay Harrison
Scheide Room
Niagara Falls Parkland
Washington
Scheide Am
Pianist Nelson Freire Gaining Attention On American Scene
The article contrasts rising young pianists like Grigory Sokolov and Alexander Slobodyanik with new talent Nelson Freire. Introduced in Los Angeles under Pierre Boulez, Freire appears on a Columbia package with Schumann Grieg Tchaikovsky and Liszt Todtentanz. Born 25 in Boa Esperanza Brazil he showed talent early and won an international competition in Vienna before turning 20 for a continental career.
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Grigory Sokolov
Alexander Slobodyanik
Horowitz
Rubinstein
Nelson Freire
New York
Los Angeles
Pierre Boulez
Columbia
Schugmann
Grieg
Tchaikovsky
Liszt
Munich Philharmonie
Rudolf Kempe
Freire
Boa Esperanza
Brazil
Freires
Freirrs
Rio
Vienna
Stage director of Met likes show me audience
Nathaniel Merrill, the only American-born stage director at the Metropolitan Opera, oversees a heavy three week schedule with two new productions this season. He recalls staging tricks from L Elisir d Amore to Samson and Dalila and discusses his collaborative process with designers, aiming for clear dramatic logic and audience awareness.
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Met
New York
Nathaniel Merrill
Metropolitan Opera
Peter Grimes
Merrill
Newton
Mass
Macy’s
Samson
Abimilech
Porgy and
Bess
Vienna
Crown
United States
Andrea Chenier
Verona
The
Il Trovatore
Attilio Colonnello
U.S. heroes as mirrors of their times in Fishwick study
Marshall Fishwick argues that American heroes reflect their era from swashbucklers to pop icons. He traces evolving hero types, notes shifting fame, and suggests future heroes arise from technological myths and alienated youth, while old legends fade.
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Marshall Fishwick
Academe
Douglas Fairbanks
George Washington
Daniel Boone
Henry Ford
Bob Dylan
Babe Ruth
Marilyn Monroe
Fishwick
Tempus
Old Square
Ralph Emerson
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Dick Francis
Harper & Row
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