Word: kalb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the exact cause of the blaze remained to be determined, investigators decided that it started in the kitchen of the ground-floor delicatessen. James Kalb was across the street when the conflagration broke out. "I heard this great big explosion toward the front end of the casino," he said. "Then I saw this big mass of flame, about 100 feet in diameter." Pandemonium surged through the casino, which stayed open 24 hours a day, as the flames roared up through the catwalk called the "eye in the sky," used by the management to monitor gambling. The early-morning patrons...
Perhaps the most interesting of the new productions, however, is the one by the least known composer. Bach, 42, a professor of music at Northern Illinois University in De Kalb, Ill., had written only one opera before The Student from Salamanca, but he clearly knows what he is doing. Using two short Cervantes works, which he put into words himself, he has created an amusing variation on an old theme: the young wife, the old husband and the handsome young man who comes along to complicate their lives...
...major frustration for a journalist covering a foreign country for a long period of time, Kalb notes, is that he amasses much more information about the people, politics and institutions than can ever make its way into print. But, he says, "a story like the Polish crisis, which demands an analysis of an entire society, utilizes everything and everyone you know. It is a reporter's dream...
...Kalb started his career as a journalist with the Washington Star, covering the anti-Viet Nam protests of the late 1960s. He finds the parallels-and the contrasts-with the Polish situation intriguing. Describing the high emotion and palpable patriotism of the strike settlement signing in Gdansk, he says: "To grasp its improbability, try to imagine Attorney General John Mitchell and Antiwar Organizer Jerry Rubin after the November 1969 march on Washington standing together and singing the Star-Spangled Banner...
...Kalb also served in Hong Kong with CBS News. He toured China with President Richard Nixon in 1976 and has found Poland to be refreshingly different...