Word: garrets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife loves him despite his ambition to "stand up in your tears, splash about in them and sing." But finally she has had enough and goes home to her parents, not telling Jimmy that she is pregnant. Her friend Helena (deftly played by Claire Bloom), a visitor in their garret, remains. Jimmy calls her an "evil-minded little virgin," but she becomes his mistress. In the end, his wife returns; the baby has miscarried and Alison is now broken enough to resume in resignation the aimless life in the attic flat...
...from a short stay at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music after his World War II service (Navy gunnery officer), he did not do much about it. Instead, he set out to make his mark in business. Says Oliver: "I never had much taste for living in a garret. And I guess, too, that I've still got the cautious instincts of a peasant...
...Over a sports story in which Prince of Peace, a softball team in the European Athletic Association, defeated its opponent with the help of a three-run homer by Rightfielder Garret Christ...
...artist-abroad is at work in Italy these days. Scorning the cognac-and-champagne antics of Hemingway's Lost Generation the American in Rome shuns a beard, rope shoes, and pants held up by a length of clothesline, prefers a walkup on Rome's outskirts to a garret on arty Via Margutta ( "too expensive and too phony") Work for Kicks. There are an estimated 500 U.S. painters, sculptors and writers in Italy today. Living on shoestring savings and slim scholarships (average annual grant: $2,500 to $3,000). most are trying to stretch their pennies into more time...
...business of being a composer used to consist mainly in having talent, writing music in a garret, and maybe finding a wealthy patron or two. Nowadays, what with foundation grants, teaching jobs, formal contests and informal cocktail party juries, the business is a lot more complicated. In the A.C.A. (American Composers Alliance) Bulletin, Iowa-born Composer Lockrem Johnson (A Letter to Emily) offers a sardonic, modern-day guide to musical success. Excerpts: ¶ "Learn to balance teacups. Naturally, this applies only to the beginning stages of your career. By the time of your first major symphonic work you will graduate...