Word: crumb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playing their good songs, just their hack-around junk. They were listless and basically uncaring. When the Dead are good, they are truly magical--they can create a frenzy out of nothing. But even "Dark Star" was done mostly (so it seemed) for form's sake. It was a crumb thrown to their fans in lieu of a real "Evening With the Grateful Dead"--the mystical communion of souls and music that only the Dead can initiate and then sustain. Lately, their magic hasn't been much in evidence...
...Demanding and visionary, in 1954 she badgered Henry Luce into promising that she would be LIFE'S first photographer to go to the moon. "Even at the peak of her career," recalled Eisenstaedt, "she was willing and eager. She would get up at daybreak to photograph a bread crumb if necessary...
...loudspeakers and other audio equipment are offering records devoted to 16 American composers largely ignored so far by the record-industry majors. Especially worthwhile are Milton Babbitt's Philomel, for soprano (Bethany Beardslee) and synthesized sound, and an airily atonalistic set of madrigals by Pulitzer Prizewinner George Crumb. The records are available by mail from AR, Inc., 24 Thorndike St., Cambridge, Mass.02141...
Cultivated Hypochondria. It was the "petite madeleine," dunked in tea and then savored, that unlocked the corridors of Proust's memory. "No sooner had the warm liquid, and the crumbs with it, touched my palate, than a shudder ran through my whole body, and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary changes that were taking place." So in Swann's Way, the first part of his seven-volume work, did Proust begin his remembrances. Soon the past was unfolding in his pages: "And once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction...
...Congressional delegation consisting of Rep. Paul M. McCloskey (R-Calif.), Rep. Bella Abzug (D. N. Y.), and Rep. Thomas M. Rees (D-Calif.) met the marchers on the steps of the Capitol. Jan Crumb, president of the VVAW, read a list of 16 demands, including total withdrawal of troops, the end of appropriations for military operations in Indochina, amnesty for draft evaders who have refused induction or left the country, and appropriations for jobs and education for returning vets. Short speeches by McCloskey and Abzug followed...