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...Oriental Garden. Monk surveys these sad facts with some bitterness. "I don't have any musician friends," he says. "I was friends to lots of musicians, but looks like they weren't friends to me." He sometimes makes quiet and kindly gestures???such as sending some money to Bud Powell, caged in a tuberculosis sanatorium outside Paris?but his words are hard. "All you're supposed to do is lay down the sounds and let the people pick up on them," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: The Loneliest Monk | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

General Wood came through the rear door, followed by three officers in uniform, one of them his son Osborne, who acts as his aide. The party proceeded up the aisle?no applause, no hisses, no gestures???silence. General Wood read his 5,000-word message without interruption. When he had finished, the audience rose once more. Up the long aisle the Governor walked with his aides? silence, dead silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Weeks, Wood, Que-Os | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

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