Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admiring critic, Lawrence Gilman, he was a composer who could "mold a beautiful or touching or heroic tonal image, and then distort it by scrawling a bad joke somewhere on its surface." He was a man who composed a great symphonic poem about his own sometimes mean and usually money-grabbing life and called it Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life...
Even more, he loved to make money-and hang on to it. According to one story, he once invited Parisian celebrities to a post-premiere feast at Larue's, ordered the finest food and wines. When the assemblage had cheered him, he had the waiter bring each guest a separate check...
Since the war, although his works have been performed as widely as ever, Allied alien-property custodians have held most of the profits (estimated, in British and U.S. royalties alone, at more than $460,000). Two years ago, pink and erect, Richard Strauss journeyed to London to earn some money conducting (he never had to yield to any man as a Mozart conductor). In London he told inquiring friends: "The last time I conduct." What were his plans? Said Strauss...
What did Scottie Wilson want? He gave a simpler answer than any vouchsafed by the Kafkas and Sartres. Burred Scottie: "I don't mind as long as I've got enough money for a few cigarettes and me kippers. Money doesn't matter to me. The only reason I'd like to have any is so that I could make people happy. I'd like to give my pictures away to people who really like them...
This month state-fair boards across the U.S. are handing out prize money to brush-and-chisel wielders as well as to cattle breeders and mincemeat experts. In most states painting and sculpture are displayed with the poultry, corn and hogs that sunburned fair visitors take...