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Word: crumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worse yet, succeed, only to taste the paltry fare we call success. Around him is his family, whose empty stomachs have been nurtured on his unsubstantial dreams, and face him now with all the weary pain of the underfed--at once so cynical and so susceptible to one more crumb of hope proffered. The task of breathing life into the Loman family on stage seems like it ought to be so simple--after all, Miller has done all the hard work, hasn't he? The simplicity is doubtless deceptive. But unfairly or not, one tends to feel less than charitable...

Author: By Barbara Fried, | Title: Death Takes a Holiday | 7/23/1974 | See Source »

...Lieberson's first moves after taking over was to give a push to an already conceived twelve-LP package devoted entirely to black composers from the 18th century to the present. Further, Columbia's February release will feature new American music by Leon Kirchner, George Crumb and Morton Subotnick. Lieberson has also given the green light to record everything ever written by Charles Ives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Day at Black Rock | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...movie is thus indebted less to Disney than to underground cartoonists like R. Crumb. Director-Writer Bakshi, in fact, was responsible for the lamentable Fritz the Cat, a feature-length film about one of Crumb's most famous creations without any of Crumb's clout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Street Sounds | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

PAINE HALL. The Apple Hill Chamber Players. Mozart: Flute Quartet in D; Brahms: Piano Trio in C; Crumb: Vox Balaenae for flute, cello, and piano. Tickets: $2.50 (call 235-9551); free to Harvard students. April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classics | 4/26/1973 | See Source »

...whose method of operation is that of reaction to stimuli; whose policy toward strangers is to set up a Neighborhood Protection Association; whose policy toward enemies is to slap and howl when stung and to exchange insult for insult; whose policy at home is to throw the dogs a crumb when their barking becomes too loud. The Democrats, on the other hand, offer the promise of systematic programs to meet the needs that eight years of non-government have neglected...

Author: By Kennedy FOR President, | Title: A Love Affair Begins | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

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