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...from $5 to $25 for tickets. Despite the financial obstacles, Mehta is eager to go into other neighborhoods, especially in the city's large Puerto Rican community. "One thing we know," he says. "We are going back to Harlem next year, that's for sure." As one enthusiast shouted from the Abyssinian balcony after the Hallelujah Chorus...
...then William Seward Burroughs, writer, gun enthusiast and wearer of polyester blazers, remarkably well-preserved for his 67 often dissipated years, got up and walked past his writer's desk and two Ouija boards, through the furniture store over which he lives, past the Salvation Army mission, to have dinner with Andy Warhol...
...What inspired you? Were you an opera enthusiast...
...primary member of the Creative Construction Company and the Revolutionary Ensemble, two groups that have provided important alternatives to the stale conventions of the post-Coltrane New York avant-garde. All the same, Jenkins is hardly a household word, even in the rarefied vocabulary of the modern jazz enthusiast...
Larsen was an enthusiast, with a superb improvisational talent, what he called "the amateur spirit." He defined it as the "sense of wonder, adventure and fun" that animated TIME from the start. He was endlessly accessible-the unphoniest man I ever met," recalls PEOPLE Magazine Publisher Richard Durrell. He liked and admired those who came to work for TIME; he treated them to an abundance of his intelligent attention and personal warmth. He was also an exceptionally alert recruiter of new talent. Remembers Heiskell: "He was terribly proud of bringing up people, making them into something." Among his discoveries were...