Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parents in what he calls "less than affluent circumstances," he moved to Manhattan as a child and grew up in a flat over the Stage Delicatessen on Seventh Avenue. At the age of five he began to practice the violin and almost took up a career as a musician. His formal schooling was a sometime thing: he spent eight to ten hours a day playing the violin and three hours a week with a tutor who came to the Stein apartment. "I learned a little math and I read a fair amount," he recalls. Only after a truant officer discovered...
...instant retrieval. Though he cared deeply for paintings and literature and was a gourmet, music was his passion. Everything and everybody, including himself, was to be sacrificed to its perfection. He was fearsome, unforgiving and, in his own performances, nearly flawless. "Well, what do you know," chortled a musician once when Szell momentarily beat a measure incorrectly. "Somebody just threw a spitball into Univac...
Herb Alpert, Musician...
...Denver-born son of a poverty-plagued musician, Kelso developed his theories partly from his own struggle to make a living. He went to work when he was in the ninth grade and drove a dynamite truck to earn his way through the University of Colorado, from which he holds degrees in both finance and law. He grew interested in economics, he says, "by brooding about the absurdity of the Depression." While stationed in the Canal Zone as a Navy intelligence officer during World War II, he wrote a 600-page manuscript pro pounding his views...
...born of a Missouri farm family named Eshelman, grew up within the rigid sexual taboos of the back country. "I was never told about menstruation or anything," she says. "There was a very rigid rejection of anything sexual. You didn't talk about it." Her 1950 marriage to a musician ended in divorce six years and two children later. Says she: "Musicians are night people and babies are day people, and I couldn't handle it all." She met Masters in 1956 when job-hunting in St. Louis. He was looking for a female research associate for his program...