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...comes to Third Stream music. "It's totally open; that's the whole beauty. I'm not interested in anything that's closed. We all approached it in different ways. It's a music which enables the creation of unique musical profiles." Indeed, compositions as diverse as Milton Babbitt's dodecaphonic All Set and John Lewis' Three Little Feelings are both considered Third Stream. Reflecting on what has become of the movement, Schuller says, "Now it's become like 10,000th stream, because ethnic and folk and vernacular music is introduced. It's no longer called Third Stream...
...Drug czar Barry McCaffrey b) Pit boss Bruce Babbitt c) Chili commissar Tom Stuckey d) Divorce lawyer Raoul Felder...
...Palo Alto since 1981. All hell is breaking loose "out there/here." These folks may sound weird, but they may also be redefining the world. And speaking as a 57-year-old, "they" don't look or eat or taste or smell--or work--much like Frank Peters or George Babbitt or Dilbert...
...back to the future! I constantly remind my middle-aged seminar participants that George Babbitt and Dilbert are not the quintessential Americans. Who are? Ben Franklin (the father of self-help literature). Ralph Waldo Emerson (self-reliance was his shtick, recall). Walt Whitman. And yes, motivational guru Tony Robbins. And yes, Donald Trump. And... Bentonville, Arkansas' Sam Walton... and Bill Gates...
Hero Jim Clark, mentioned above, is no charmer, as revealed by Michael Lewis in The New New Thing. In fact, to my reading, he comes off as about as delectable as Donald Trump. But he's pure American bravado, a bravado that was lost in the Babbitt-Dilbert-Big Bureaucracy-Cubicle Slave decades...