Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of the LP's influence has to do with distribution. Today virtually every form of sound known to and made by man, from primitive African chants to serialistic chamber music - "the old, the new, the modern, the academic, the screwball," as Conductor Erich Leinsdorf puts it - is easily available to increasingly sophisticated listeners. What the composer writes is indelibly affected by that fact. Italy's Luciano Berio notes that Debussy was influenced by Javanese music, but had to discover it by pure chance. If it had not been per formed at the Paris Universal Exhibition...
...prove him self as a businessman. Nor did he agree with his father's evaluation of his tal ent. Barren said that he would not work for less than $1,000 a month. Conrad was not willing to pay him more than $150. The young man decided to go into business for himself...
Setting Records. Barron came back to the family business by a roundabout route. When his father rebuffed his first effort to land a well-paying Hilton job, the young man began selling fresh fruit juice to Los Angeles dairies. The venture prospered and helped pave Barren's way into the family firm...
...rarely immersed himself in a part to the extent that one could forget he was Richard Burton, but he does it this time. Harrison has often seemed to be acting before a mirror rather than a camera. In Staircase he is acting before the broken mirror of a man's life, and he evolves a poignancy that is wonderfully real. At crucial moments in the film, he is given to saying "God help us all, and Oscar Wilde." Wilde would not have liked Staircase. It is not elegant. It is not witty. It lacks his opulent depravity...
When the alltime, all-star baseball team was recently chosen to mark the game's 100th anniversary, the man named history's foremost manager was John Joseph McGraw. His selection was virtually incontestable. More than any other man McGraw transformed baseball from a rustic game of stark individual power into a scrambling contest of split-second team prowess...