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...many ways, the attitude of the lifeguard is close to Updike himself. The lifeguard performs the function of a sense organ; he is paid to observe closely the world around him. Updike, too, is concerned with the sensory experience. This is the basis for in details. But for Updike not enough to live life; one must understand the significance of individual experience...

Author: By J. MICHAEL Crichton, | Title: Updike Writes About Unhappy People | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...quickly as the split was opened to public view, Cuba's Communists hurried to smooth it over. "There is no breach, but rather more unity for all," insisted Hoy, official organ of the Communist Party. Yet only a unity of necessity joins Castro's wild-eyed impulsive revolutionaries and the party's longtime regulars. And it is doubtful that any lasting meeting of minds can come between the mob-rousing and vain Fidel and the shadowy, heavy-set mulatto who heads Cuba's Communist Party and commands its maneuvers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Moscow's Man in Havana | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Until recently the Advocate read like the house organ for a literary club. The same names appeared again and again, and it became a polite joke to ask who had written for the new issue. No one would have minded this policy of nepotism had the quality of the craftsmanship been higher, but with two notable exceptions (Stephen Sandy and Arthur Freeman) the last three years have been meager ones. And so there may be cause for hope, since this long awaited April number includes a host of new writers and a surprising amount of fine work...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: The Advocate | 4/25/1962 | See Source »

...composer, one grandmother a famous singer at l'Opera-Comique. Her father won the Prix de Rome for composition in 1835. For variety, her mother was a Russian princess. As a student at the Paris Conservatoire, she carried off first prize in every field she studied: harmony, counterpoint, fugue, organ, and accompaniment. With this array of musical proficiency, she took responsibility for the musical training of her first student: her sister, Lili Boulanger. As a teacher, she succeeded. In 1913 Lili Boulanger won the Grand Prix de Rome in composition, the first woman ever to do so. Characteristically...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: To Organize Time: A Sketch of Nadia Boulanger | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

...Never have I regretted the outcome," she says. "He died famous." She took only students from whom she could demand as complete a devotion to work as her own. And then she extracted the most she could from each of them. She commissioned Cop-land to write an organ concerto while he was studying under her, then performed the solo in the 1925 premiere conducted by Walter Damrosch...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: To Organize Time: A Sketch of Nadia Boulanger | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

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