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...right" say: "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (John Livingston is the name of a great racing pilot of the 1930s). The hair on Bach's neck rises. He turns his head. Nobody there. He walks home fast, enters his room and sits on the bed. After a few minutes he says aloud just what anyone who knows Dick Bach realizes he would say: "Look, voice. If you think I know what this means, you're absolutely out of your mind. If it means something, tell me." What follows is like a Ken Russell film version of The Messiah with George Frederick Handel...
Last week I had lunch with some earnest media businessmen, the kind who deal with music in terms of "product." One of them wondered aloud to our host, from Atlantic Records, if another Buffalo Springfield retrospective would be released. The time was right, he said. It'd make a great product...
...find the kind of wife he is seeking. Though he returned to Japan a hero, other glamorous figures (the Olympic gymnasts, among others) have since dethroned him. Worst of all, his neighbors have begun to cool toward him. Explains one friend: "Quite a few people have been wondering aloud why he didn't commit hara-kiri like a good soldier when Guam fell." Besides, "people are disgusted because he looks down on them disdainfully and seems convinced that nobody else suffered during...
Having turned 88, Alexandra Tolstoy, daughter of Leo Tolstoy, was in the mood for reminiscing. "One day we were reading War and Peace aloud," said Miss Tolstoy at her home in Valley Cottage, N.Y., "and father came into the room, and he stood there with his hands inside the belt of his blouse, and he said, 'What's that? It isn't badly written.' He was a vegetarian and a pacifist, but when a mosquito sat on the head of Chertkov [one of Tolstoy's followers], father killed it without a thought. Chertkov turned...
...meetings of the organization's 912 chapters, held once or twice a week, victims of emotional disturbance read aloud from Low or listen to tape recordings of his heavily accented voice: "Things go on, inside you and outside you. We do not discuss emergencies or catastrophes-how often do they happen? We discuss daily life and nothing else. Daily life is something we should be able to deal with satisfactorily. I want you to distinguish clearly between outer and inner environments and the attitude you take. The attitude is yours! It can be changed, improved, omitted, manipulated. Events cannot...