Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every 30 seconds. Before Abie's eyes was the light that would flash red. and close to her skinny fingers was the button that she had been trained to push. Monkey Baker, a graduate of the Naval Aviation School of Medicine at Pensacola, was a fluffy South American squirrel-monkey weighing only 11 oz. Wearing a tiny helmet, she rode in a smaller cylindrical capsule and lay on a molded bed of silicone rubber covered for her comfort with a thin mattress of rubber foam...
...sounds like a swell life," I said. "When do I work?" -The Sun Also Rises In high-ceilinged studios and sunny flats littered with children's toys, a new kind of American-artist-abroad is at work in Italy these days. Scorning the cognac-and-champagne antics of Hemingway's Lost Generation the American in Rome shuns a beard, rope shoes, and pants held up by a length of clothesline, prefers a walkup on Rome's outskirts to a garret on arty Via Margutta ( "too expensive and too phony") Work for Kicks. There are an estimated...
former Princeton football player ('52) and writer: "They have missed a fundamental aspect of American life-work." Most of the U.S. artists are drawn to Rome because it is cheaper to live there. Their down-to-earth approach is reflected in their art: painting includes recognizable images, sculpture often mirrors the human form, prose and poetry tend to be lucid, coherent and direct. Few have qualms about accepting commercial commissions. Cracked one sculptor: "For a thousand dollars I'll do a head of grandma -guaranteed to look just like grandma!" Wives for Models. Typical of Rome...
...business of being a composer used to consist mainly in having talent, writing music in a garret, and maybe finding a wealthy patron or two. Nowadays, what with foundation grants, teaching jobs, formal contests and informal cocktail party juries, the business is a lot more complicated. In the A.C.A. (American Composers Alliance) Bulletin, Iowa-born Composer Lockrem Johnson (A Letter to Emily) offers a sardonic, modern-day guide to musical success. Excerpts: ¶ "Learn to balance teacups. Naturally, this applies only to the beginning stages of your career. By the time of your first major symphonic work you will graduate...
Policeman, policeman, do your duty, Here comes Diane with th'American...