Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little national-pride music, maestro. Thank you. Our very own United States of America (rooty-toot-toot) makes the best TV beer commercials (tantara) in the universe. Nobody else is close, unless it is some race of advertising geniuses in the Crab nebula, and that is not close, and anyway the Crabs do not have John Madden or Mickey Spillane, so forget them...
...nerves. It gets all the more complicated when you find yourself running short on patience and long on temper -- a consequence of having age. And if you don't cut yourself some slack somewhere in this stretch, you may overhear a relative phoning the guys in the white jackets. Maestro, eight bars of some "for instance" music, please...
...maestro of this process was Matisse. He was a mature painter of 48 when he started his first working sojourn in Nice after 1916. Just as Gauguin had carried his style preformed with him to Tahiti, so Matisse took his to the Cote d'Azur. One would logically expect that given the tremendous efforts of ! abstraction and integration that had gone into his work from his fauve paintings of 1905-06 to The Moroccans of 1916, nothing he did thereafter would seem trivial to art historians. Yet such was not the case. Most accounts of Matisse's life treat...
When the part-speech, part-group therapy session ended, I felt part of something special. Members of the self-selected and the Epps-selected crowd were speechless; they too felt part of something special. The maestro was surrounded by a newly-converted following, some of whom were presumably going to rush home to their own high holiday rituals, telling of their brush with greatness...
Bernstein juggled a scotch on the rocks, a tin of imported cigarettes and a ream of papers. Throughout the night each one of those distractions competed for the great maestro's attention. With 70 "student leaders" in attendance, hung over and left over from the Memorial Hall dinner where Bernstein was supposed to give his speech, he told of "the Enemy" that people create to give life a clearer purpose. As a country, we force the Soviet Union into that role, Bernstein argued--putting down the scotch on the rocks and spraying ashes on the Junior Common Room carpet--just...