Word: classe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everyone has not been so unaware of the coming of the great composer. A few weeks later, one of his students appeared in class with a movie camera and proceeded to film the lecture. There is a reason for such mechanized awe. Aside from his fame as a composer, Hindemith is probably the most gifted of music teachers, and it was indeed a coup when the creator of "Mathis der Maler" took a leave from Yale to teach and give the Norton lectures here...
...composition, if it limits the composer's own contribution to music, Hindemuth answers, "Myself, I cannot compose all the time. I don't get ideas just sitting around waiting for them. They come form somewhere, and I get them teaching." He admits, however, that his schedule here with a class and a lecture for publication every week is not entirely conducive to creativity...
...life. He spent his boyhood on the campus of Oberlin College, with its "two little red buildings crumbling away upon its corners" and its roads of yellow clay. It was the "hottest, coldest, wettest, flattest part of the state of Ohio," where life revolved about his father's class, the long hours in chapel, and the fact that, in Hutchins' sophomore year (1916), Ohio State beat Oberlin at football...
...Hollywood, the drinking of bottled water has become a mark of class; only such lowlifes as $1,000-a-week writers drink tap water. Theodora thought that she would have something special with her water from Hereford, where tooth decay is almost unknown, supposedly because of fluorine in the water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). She sewed up commercial rights with the town of Hereford ("For all the water we'll ever need"), and leased a 10,000-gallon railway tank car to haul the water to Hollywood at $1,100 a trip...
...Adriana's life in mid-'30s Rome. Already luscious at 16, she lived in a depressing slum with her widowed, seamstress mother. Mama had no intention of letting her daughter get tied up with hard work or tied down to marriage with a man of her class. She got her a job as a model, made it clear that she didn't mind Adriana sleeping out "as long as they paid her." After a couple of non-professional affairs, streetwalking followed fast...