Word: balliett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American Singers, Whitney Balliett...
American Singers, Whitney Balliett...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙Albert Camus, Herbert R. Lottman American Singers, Whitney Balliett In Memory Yet Green, Isaac Asimov The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald ∙Thoughts in a Dry Season, Gerald Brenan ∙To Build a Castle-My Life as a Dissenter, Vladimir Bukovsky...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ Albert Camus, Herbert R. Lottman American Caesar, William Manchester ∙ American Singers, Whitney Balliett ∙ In Memory Yet Green, Isaac Asimov ∙ Letters of Flannery O'Connor: The Habit of Being, edited by Sally Fitzgerald Thoughts in a Dry Season, Gerald Brenan
...honest to slick up their style, they began to be as obsolete as a 78-r.p.m. single. Here and there, Balliett touches on the poignancy of their lives, as when Blossom Dearie says wistfully, "I'd sort of like to become the rage for a while." As American Singers makes clear, she never will be. But there are all kinds of celebrity, and Balliett's glowing tribute may prove more enduring than gold records and cabaret applause...