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Science seems to have been skeptical. Then Lawrence wrote to say that he had decided to emigrate to Florida, with his wife and "several young people," including his Armenian disciple, Dmitri Kouyoumdjian, to "start a new life in a new spirit. Won't you come . . . too?" he begged, "& be president of us?" But Bertie apparently wouldn't budge; and the British government refused Lawrence a passport. Disciple Kouyoumdjian was also a disappointment: he changed both his mind and his name, stayed on in England and became "Michael Arlen" of a bestseller called The Green...
There are, for instance, 3,150 books on various aspects of European, Asiatic and African history, 900 volumes on labor, 2,900 on economics, 450 on medicine, some children's books (Mother Goose, Alice In Wonderland, etc.), and 14 cook books of English, French, German, Chinese and Armenian recipes. They are useful, among other things, for satisfying our editors' curiosity about such matters as these (taken from a recent week's morgue queries...
This week, Manhattan concertgoers heard his latest oddity-a piece called Shatokh. Against a low rich moan of the violin, the piano sounded like one of the ancient Armenian zither-and lute-like instruments (kanoon, saz) that Hovhaness likes to imitate: there was little else but pluck-like repeated notes, connected occasionally by eddying swirls of sound. Suddenly, when it was about to verge on monotony, Shatakh just ended...
...that he doesn't know conventional harmony, rhythm and form: he earns his living teaching at the Boston Conservatory of Music, playing the organ in an Armenian church for services, and for weddings and funerals. Occasionally, to pick up a little change, he has harmonized popular songs. A shy, serious man, he lives with his 18-year-old wife Serafina in Boston's grubby Field Street, rough equivalent of Greenwich Village...
...statement said that investigation had shown the Armenian League is "not a Communist or Communist-front group...