Word: offbeaters
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Slowly, However, we do gain compassion. The Daniel who narrates the book is a married Columbia graduate student, guilt-ridden, sick of his bourgeois complacency; his tensions surface in offbeat sexual acts and professional inertia. His sister feels she keeps the political flame of the Isaacsons alive by participating in Radcliffe radicalism; she acts with confident reflex, but she lacks a real family and when her brother and certain radical friends do not co-operate to form a revolutionary foundation with an Isaacson trust fund, she begins to crack. Her attempt at suicide in a Howard Johnson's wash room...
Loss of awe is part of a journalist's apprenticeship, which Porterfield served as a reporter for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. He joined TIME in 1963 and eventually settled in New York as our music critic. In that job, he wrote the offbeat and upbeat Christmas cover story of 1968, with Bach as the central figure and the composer's durability as the theme. He then served for two years as a cultural correspondent based in London. There he first saw two British television programs, Till Death Us Do Part and Steptoe and Son, programs that later...
...decades since, Adler, now 67, has more than doubled the company's regular fall season (from five to eleven weeks) and quadrupled its annual budget past the $3,000,000 mark. He has also introduced a widely adored spring program for offbeat operatic productions sung in English (among them Kurt Weill's Mahagonny). More important, he has launched the roving Western Opera, a company of young American singers and players that regularly tours in places as far apart as Alaska and Arizona. But it is in the cavernous War Memorial Opera House of the parent company that Adler...
...trifle intimidating. Intellectual Digest, moreover, sounds like a contradiction in terms; scholarly writing is almost by definition lengthy and leisured. Yet Editor Martin Goldman has managed in only one year to make the concept work. The monthly mixture of excerpted articles and books, commissioned artwork and original offbeat interviews has doubled in circulation to 400,000 and is approaching the black-ink border...
There followed stand-up comedy dates at New York City nightspots and 25 appearances on the Tonight Show. Steinberg also cut two records featuring the offbeat brand of Old Testament humor that had become his trademark. "My sermons strike out in all directions," he says. "At the prophets, at myself, the clergy and at God. But when God comes off looking ridiculous, this is the God of the clergy...