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...past three decades, the U.S. theater has dashed from the barricade to the bedroom, from a flirtation with Marx to an infatuation with Freud. The social-protest school, including Clifford Odets, Irwin Shaw and Lillian Hellman, recessed when it lost its villain. The Depression took its critics with...
CASE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY J. Irwin Miller, L.H.D., board chairman of Cummins Engine Co., Inc., former president of the National Council of Churches...
Some composers drink. Others dabble in love affairs. Irwin ("Bud") Bazelon goes to the race track. There, he says, "things crystallize for me. All aspects of life-hope, anxiety, success, joy, failure, anticipation-are capsulized in a two-minute ride. It stimulates...
Erupting World. Bazelon says that he is called Bud because "Irwin just isn't me." He used to be an Irwin, though. That was back in the days when he was studying composition at De Paul University in Chicago. Partly because of a punctured eardrum that left him semideaf, he was "shy, diffident, introverted-an exceptionally quiet guy." Six months of study with Composer Paul Hindemith at Yale didn't help matters much; he lost 25 Ibs. and suffered a nervous breakdown. "I couldn't take his Prussian taskmaster tactics," says Bazelon. Bazelon eventually 'fled...
...with an operation. Suddenly, he recalls, "the violent, silent world inside me erupted. I came out of my shell." And how. Exclaims Bazelon: "I became outgoing, warm, animated, tremendously buoyant -a rock 'em, sock 'em personality. And my music became just as dramatic as I am." exit Irwin; enter...