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...nothing that's very deep or profound," says David D. Hebb, a history research assistant, flipping through a book in one of the Cabot carrels a few days ago. "Their concerns seem to be quite limited...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: SCRAWLING GRAFFITI | 2/29/1992 | See Source »

...Sunny--Bobby Hebb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Year's Top Picks | 1/5/1967 | See Source »

...good as many an imported classic. When critics roasted him for including Old Man River in a program of operatic excerpts, he responded by including it in almost every recital he sang after that. He also laced his concert programs with popular tranquilizers-De Glory Road, Gwine to Hebb'n, At Dawning. Tibbett probably made more money than his contemporaries because he was the first to exploit the box-office glitter of the Met's name in the world of show business-a practice that Rudolf Bing later frowned upon. He became one of the first U.S. opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's Grand Trouper | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

Jacques Wolfe, 55, composer of such famed songs as Shortnin' Bread, Glory Road, and Gwine to Hebb'n, is a man with strong feelings about "real American opera." He is convinced that it won't develop until a lot of traditional "operatic hogwash" goes down the drain. His prediction: American opera will settle in a style "somewhere between Porgy and Bess and South Pacific. Let's face it, the popular song is the American idiom." Last week Rumanian-born Composer Wolfe was illustrating his point in a theater off Broadway with a little production called Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in the Idiom | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...Hebb claimed that sex education in the normal home is bad. Parents are leery of broaching the subject to their adolescent children. Reading such novels may at least prevent the children's picking up the wrong ideas on the street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hebb Says Sex Novels Serve Mental Hygiene | 4/17/1951 | See Source »

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