Word: elfin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weighs too much (215 Ibs.); he balloons out too far at the middle (44-in. waist). A bashful mustache perches below his nose. His mouth, always ready to smile, surrounds a small boy's teeth, with the necessary aperture in the center for whistling and spitting. Elfin ears peek selfconsciously around his rosy Pooh cheeks. He dresses in department-store suits, noisy ties and unshined shoes...
William Bergsma is an elfin-faced, cowlicked and unabashed young man who says of himself: "I first took up the violin, didn't practice. Then the viola, didn't practice that either. So I became a composer." He has practiced that. At 29, he has to his credit a ballet suite, Paul Bunyan, half a dozen short orchestral and choral works, and two string quartets. His second quartet, composed in 1944, won him a blessing from New York critics, a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a job teaching composition at Manhattan...