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What makes it more impressive is that Schuller was a high school dropout, and is a completely self-taught composer ("I learned from the best teachers, the scores themselves"). The son of a New York Philharmonic violinist, he became a professional French horn player at 16, at 19 started a 14-year stint with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. All the while, he composed prolifically. even scribbling notes during rests at performances...
...bright red Dior suit, she toured the town with all the aplomb of a grand lady at her leisure. Daniel Chester French's famous Minuteman statue, she mused, "is rather splendid, though full of youthful literalism." Thoreau, she observed, is "a hero of the hippies, a dedicated dropout who was turned on by nature." Deftly summing up Hawthorne's stories as "tales of the dire results of invading the privacy of someone's secret heart," she added tartly that Hawthorne once confessed that he found Thoreau " 'tedious, tiresome and intolerable'-which he probably...
Linda Fitzpatrick, 18, the suburban dropout who was murdered with her latest hippie boy friend in a Greenwich Village basement earlier this month, confessed that she was hooked on the drug, and may indeed have been lured to her death by a promise of the stuff. The number of speeders-called "speed freaks," "meth freaks," "meth monsters," or "meth heads"-has, according to the hippies, increased enormously within recent months. Researchers writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimate that in San Francisco alone, 4,000 people regularly inject themselves with powerful amphetamines...
...love and laughter who turned on to every stimulant-from simple, undrugged fun to crystallized "speed" (methedrine, a high-powered amphetamine), which he occasionally sold for profit. Hippies called him "Groovy." Linda Rae Fitzpatrick, 18, was the daughter of a Greenwich, Conn., spice merchant, a blonde and dreamy-eyed dropout from Maryland's exclusive Oldfields School. Alienated by whatever obscure forces from her parents-both of whom had previously been divorced -she had traded the security of exurbia for the turned-on squalor of hippie life in the East Village...
...I.V.S. dropout was led by Donald Luce, 33, an agricultural expert from East Calais, Vt., and the director of the I.V.S. team in Viet Nam. It developed only after months of soul-searching and internal maneuvering with the official U.S. AID superstructure in Saigon. Luce and his colleagues objected primarily to the "over-Americanization" of the war effort since mid-1965, felt that air and artillery strikes in Viet Cong country, by creating more refugees, were only prolonging the war and destroying the fabric of Vietnamese society. "Protesters usually put emphasis on napalm and other so-called atrocities," said Luce...