Word: daemonically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Images of Money. Gold is one, the daemon of the Venetian genius, as Mary McCarthy sees it. Not only does it glint from painting, palazzo and cathedral, but from the hard surfaces of the Venetian mind as well. It was typical of the Venetians to sit out the first three Crusades except as close-bargaining transport agents. How explain the paradox, asks Author McCarthy, of "a commercial people who lived solely for gain-how could they create a city of fantasy, lovely as a dream or a fairy tale?" Her answer is as tantalizing as her question: "There...
...precision so bemused Composer Igor Stravinsky that he wrote his Ebony Concerto for it. The outfit made Herman the top bandsman in the land. He disbanded it because it left him too little time for wife and daughter-"I just hadda go home, that's all"-but his daemon kept driving him, and a year later he had another standout herd. It was a disastrous venture because it was dedicated to the dying bop style and cost him a cool $175,000 before he could break it up. Three years ago, unhappy fronting small combos with his clarinet...