Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laughin' matter. Your reporter hasn't paid the price of a haircut lately. No one in his right mind could have had a grudge against sweet, mellow Mr. Anastasia. Umberto must have been mistaken for the head of the local barbers' union...
What changed his mind? "We're getting old, you know," he says. "We just don't have the energy we had at 20. One begins to center on certain things." Does it mean that Lennie is finally settling down to one career? Not at all. He is determined to go on composing serious music ("I cannot live without it"). He even hopes to get in a musical comedy occasionally, but with the time and trouble required for Broadway productions, "it will have to be put off a while-a good, solid while...
...uninterrupted half hour of disarming intimacy and directness. Other conductors, he chuckled, get "furious" when he conducts his own works ("They consider it competition"), but "you earn more as a conductor" than as a composer. "Music," Stravinsky explained, "is an organization of tones-an act of the human mind." For him organization began at the age of eight. "I was playing a scale on the piano. I thought, if somebody invented the scale, I can change something in the scale and invent something else-and I invented...
...duplication of effort as well as sheer failure. Not only does the pressure of security promote mediocrity by denying the opportunity for free criticism, basically it stifles the growth of education in these fields because of the scientist's difficulty in separating the classified and non-classified in his mind. For example, Enrico Fermi was forced to discontinue lecturing on atomic theory after the war because he felt that he could not help but divulge classified material...
C.P.A.? In Los Angeles, Model Virginia De Lee, 21. won a divorce after testifying that when she asked her husband why he didn't get a job, he slugged her "and told me to mind my own business...