Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...original interest in music came from an orchestral point of view. I guess it's a sound that's been in my ear the longest. There have been periods of listening more to piano music, but they were always brief...
Aaron S. Mathes '98 found out just how bad "constructive" criticism can be. At the end of the semester, he received an e-mail that listed his grades, followed by "a brief moral booster send-off." However, upon scrolling down the page, Mathes found the list of grades for all his T.F.'s students--the T.F. had clearly forgotten to delete it from the e-mail. The list included not only grades for all students, but also "the T.F.'s honest personal perceptions of each student," Mathes says. When he looked at the T.F.'s comments about him, he found...
Maybe it is just that the public grows bored after a while of seeing the same names in the headlines and reacts accordingly. Maybe it is as simple a phenomenon as jealousy of the success of others. Maybe the brief half-life of celebrity is due to our much-maligned disposable MTV culture, which tailors advertisements and events to viewers who are assumed to have the attention span of an electron...
...rumored first marriage to Palm Beach socialite Durie Malcolm was a fact. Though stories surfaced in the press in 1961, reporters could find no record of the marriage then. The Kennedy camp denied that it had happened. Malcolm continues to do the same. Spalding told Hersh that the ultra-brief marriage, perhaps an overnight sensation, did indeed take place, in early 1947. At Kennedy's request, says Hersh, Spalding, with the help of a lawyer, removed records of the marriage, presumably from Palm Beach County courthouse...
Hersh's chapter on Exner is typical of the book. Most of the Georgetown dinner scene with her and Kennedy appeared in a 1988 PEOPLE magazine story by Kitty Kelley, a piece acknowledged by Hersh in his frustratingly brief notes on sources at the end of his book. (Kelley's story was even headlined "The Dark Side of Camelot.") But that big bag of money seems like a new touch. Exner told TIME she did not reveal it to Kelley because Kelley became irritated with her during an interview and walked out. Hersh supplies a corroborating witness, Martin E. Underwood...