Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have known Leon Kirchner since 1955, and have never resented Mr. Kirchner, much less "deeply" so. In fact, I have known and respected Mr. Kirchner as an individual as well as a professional musician since that time, I have talked to Mr. Straus, since reading his article, and he tells me that he does not feel it necessary to retract the statement that "I deeply resent Mr. Kirchner" because he has a right to his impression. I will refrain from giving my "impression" of Mr. Straus's intelligence and reparative ability on the grounds that it might be libelous...
...black musician turns violent revolutionary after his new Model T is vandalized by jealous whites. Harry Houdini, the immortal escape artist, cannot slip from his mother's apron strings. He is also a man incapable of political thought because, in Doctorow's moving phrase, "he could not reason from his own hurt feelings...
...Weather is eagerly honest about everything: her childhood in a family of Jack Mormons (those who do not keep "the Word of Wisdom"); an early marriage that produced two daughters and a desperate infidelity; flight from Salt Lake City to sinful Los Angeles; a second marriage to an aspiring musician who hurries back to the car after his wedding meal so he won't miss the Top 100 on the radio...
...daughters. Twenty per cent of the fathers of the Harvard class of 1975 received no college education. Sixty-three per cent are professionals 19 per cent are white-collar workers and 11 per cent are blue-collar workers. Thirty-five fathers are listed under the category of "writer, artist, musician...
Lionel Hampton, LL.D., jazz musician...