Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calls him, is more than lifesize, as is everything about him?ins clarion high Cs, his fees of $8,000 per night for an opera and $20,000 for a recital, his Rabelaisian zest for food and fun. "He is not primo tenore, " says San Francisco Opera General Director Kurt Herbert Adler. "He is primissimo tenore...
...Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut Living in the Maniototo, Janet Frame
JAILBIRD by Kurt Vonnegut Delacorte; 277 pages...
Fame has a way of ruining a writer's reputation. Take the case of Kurt Vonnegut, who became a cult figure in the late '60s after enduring years of hard-earned obscurity. A growing army of high school and college readers began proclaiming him a deep thinker, at about the same time that critics started cuffing him for being a shallow artist. Both judgments were wrong. Vonnegut has never written a thought that could not occur to a sporadically meditative teenager, nor has he pretended to; those who are impressed by the profundity of a shrug...
...inspired partly by pique and partly by legitimate reservations. Angered by a superpower deal arranged over their heads, the Israelis complained that unlike the large, combat-ready Emergency Force, which was created by the entire Security Council, the team of observers would be responsible solely to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim...