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At 41, Sondheim is a spent youth. The son of a wealthy New York dress manufacturer, he literally learned his first lessons in the craft of songwriting at the feet of an old family friend, Oscar Hammerstein II. Stephen was then eleven; Oscar thought his first pubescent musical "terrible?although...
No scene is complete without its obligatory corpses: various Old Massas die from fire, asp and poison (stomach "exploding like an infernal machine"). Sensuality, in turn, has an almost murderous force. Always there are the users and the used. Slave caravans seem to march across the top of every page...
The children of Haverhill, Mass. (pop. 45,000), are victims of neither poverty nor permissiveness. They are mostly sons and daughters of upright workers in the shoe factories of a New England mill town 40 miles north of Boston. Yet in the past month two anonymous notes from a "people...
Over a battery-powered radio, a journalist named Lamberto Guzman sent a horrifying report from Yungay: "Out of 41,000 only 3,000 have survived-those of us who reached the higher areas before the huayco hit us. We had been terrified by the quake, and most of us were...
> "Never trust anyone over 30" has become a rallying cry of today's radical youth. Yet there is one oldster the youngsters do listen to-at least for now. He is 42, looks a little like an elf on a high, and has already had one whiff of the...