Word: nogoodnik
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writing for the people. Like Lenny Bernstein. I think West Side Story is one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century because it combines the classics with the vernacular." Munves particularly mourns the disappearance of good old-fashioned melody. When he says, "It all started with that nogoodnik Schoenberg," he is having a laugh, but only partly. "The thing with music is that man has to see his own image in it," he says. "And man's image in music is melody...