Word: harped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choose to live in a tree-house leaps into true life. Capote's success as a writer (really a poet at times) lies in his gradual revelation of the human soul through humorous colloquial expression and the simple language of the heart. The "Grass Harp", for instance, is a field of tall Indian grass which "sighs" the wisdom of people buried in a cemetery near by. Avoiding the heavy symbolism of Thomas Mann, the author shows simply how several eccentric individuals and an evangelical caravan are drawn to the tree-hut in the "Harp", handled brutally by the suspicious town...
...there any way one can get the W.C.T.U. another string for their harp...
Robert Maxwell, 28, is one of the top supper-club attractions in Manhattan just now because 1) he learned to play the harp in a good school (Juilliard) and 2) he soon got tired of classic tempos. The Maxwell contribution to Manhattan's current nightlife: harping in swing style...
There is nothing especially unorthodox in Maxwell's technique; the novelty is in what he uses his big harp for, and in his arrangements. "There just aren't arrangements for what I want to do, so I have to make them myself." Bronx-born Maxwell won a harp chair with the NBC Symphony at 17, quit after 18 months. Says he: "A harpist doesn't get to play any more often than the triangle-player. He sits there quietly for 684 bars, then plays two of his own. It's frustrating...
Maxwell took his harp and joined an eight-piece dance band, began working out some of the arrangements he needed. Then he joined the Coast Guard and got a chance to play for a while in Lieut. Rudy Vallee's bluejacket orchestra. Since then, he has been what he wants to be: a soloist. Some nightclub managers shudder at the thought of a swing harpist, but Maxwell is making inroads and good money. Income last year...