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...does write music. He found it hard to be explicit, but he did succeed in being unromantic. Wrote he: "This appetite [for composing] is not at all a fortuitous thing like inspiration, but as habitual and periodic ... as a natural need." Stravinsky prefers to call himself an inventor rather than a composer. "For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find. ... A composer improvises aimlessly, the way an animal grubs about. . . . I suddenly stumble upon something unexpected. At the proper time, I put it to profitable use. ... An accident is perhaps the only thing that really inspires...
...Spring is a great respecter of convention. Actually, wrote Stravinsky, "the more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free. If everything is permissible to me, the best and the worst, then any effort is inconceivable. . . ." The anarchic modern composer has become "a monster of originality, inventor of his own language, of his own vocabulary. ... So he comes to the point of speaking an idiom without relation to the world that listens...
Last week the Nobel Prize Committee awarded this year's Peace Prize ($38,990) jointly to the American Friends' Service Committee in Philadelphia* and the Friends' Service Council in London. According to the will of the late Swedish dynamite-inventor Alfred Nobel, the award is required to be voted "unanimously." This time, said Committee Vice Chairman Carl Joachim, Hambro, it really...
Besides their association with the prize of Alfred B. Nobel, established by the inventor of dynamite in 1896, and the mutual ownership of a picket fence, Cadbury and Bridman have another common ground. Both hold the oldest professorial chairs in the College under the Hollis eighteenth century bequest...
Orville Wright, 76, of the plane-pioneering Wright brothers, ran up the steps of a building, collapsed, observed when he came to: "Apparently the exertion was too much for me." At a Dayton hospital next day, Inventor Wright & heart were reported "satisfactory...