Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a book by Julius Epstein (co-writer of the film classic Casablanca), the show revolves around a group of Brooklyn single guys in 1929 who pool their money so that Gene, the most ambitious of their band, can make a killing in the stock market. Despite piquant parallels to our own market mania, the story is a pretty standard boy-meets-girl/boy-loses-money trifle. But it's a showcase for a fresh and winning Sondheim score, from the days when he wrote melodies meant to be enjoyed, not deciphered...
...band toured the country, but Greenspan knew that someday the music would end, and he planned accordingly...
After a year in the band he entered New York University's (NYU) School of Commerce, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in economics. In 1949, he got his masters from NYU and later transferred to Columbia to work on a doctorate...
Ford credits Greenspan's time on the road with the band for honing his sensitivity to the sentiments of different people--an excellent talent for government...
...desk is said to be adorned with a plaque appropriate to his position: "The Buck Starts Here!" And so it will be for the former band-man-turned-economist-turned-commencement speaker. This unusual and powerful man has never had a problem with creativity...