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School First. As basketball players go, the Big O is no loose-jointed skyscraper. Solidly built at 6 ft. 5 in., 199 Ibs., he depends on lightning reflexes and graceful coordination rather than treetop height. Oscar makes all the shots from anywhere on the floor with devastating proficiency. Last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big O | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

Composer Britten, a resident of Aldeburgh (pop. 2,689), likes to write for children-"They find my idiom easier than grownups do, and they don't argue with me. You never find a child saying, 'That note should be F natural.' " He recruited his 5-to 17...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: By Ark & Rocket | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Composer Kurka, Chicago-born son of Czech parents, started on the project with Librettist Lewis Allan three years ago, finished the vocal score and 350 pages of orchestration before his death of leukemia last December at the age of 35. His good friend Hershy Kay completed the orchestration from Kurka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera by Americans | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

Teresa Wright does as much with the role of Cora as nearly anyone could. Pat Hingle acts Rubin as solidly as he did Gooper in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Eileen Heckart, as Lottie, impresses many people as magnificent--a loosely jointed, many-toned caricature actress a la Roz...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs | 11/13/1957 | See Source »

Puppet on a String. Giuffre's own compositions are written without the aid of an instrument-he just uses "the inner ear." They are often inspired by the green countryside that he and his fellow soloists roll through in their orange-and-brown Volkswagen bus, and written down in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chamber Jazz | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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