Word: conning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organ does not contrast with the orchestra but stirs it up and then masses forces with it. Considered shocking at the time ("If a young man at the age of 23 can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder!" declared Con ductor Walter Damroseh), the work has never been recorded until now. The New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein conducting, provides a gentle-to-jazzy buildup for Organist E. Power Biggs...
Festival of Life. "Our attitude is basically satirical," says another YIP leader, Keith Lampe, 36, in a rare Yippie understatement. Already Yippies have demonstrated their distaste for air pollution by invading the Manhattan offices of Con Ed to deposit black chrysanthemums with secretaries, hurl soot at executives and detonate smoke bombs. They parodied the police by staging their own mock predawn narcotics raid at the Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York. Next month Yippies from coast to coast are planning an Indian ghost dance* against American foreign policy...
...Wisconsin, the wise political bettor keeps his wallet shut. It is the state that produced both the La-Follettes and Joe McCarthy, where the traditionally Republican electorate sends liberal Democrats to Con gress, where the Progressive movement is still a living memory, and where George Wallace captured one-third of the Democratic presidential-primary vote...
...Cavett is not stopped before he gets more practice, this Nebraska citybilly, this con merchant in a Brooks Brothers special, this yahoo Yalie, this literate, witty guy, is likely to become a national habit. And then who is going to wash all those dirty dishes...
...melo dy or tonality, and he has the courage to write in the familiar mainstream tra dition of Bartok and Prokofiev-the titters of twelve-tone, modified twelve-tone, post-Webern and electronic cliques notwithstanding. That is not to say he is old hat. Within the bounds of con ventional forms like the symphony, sonata, string quartet and concerto, Lees manages to be fascinatingly original and thoroughly contemporary...