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...business of being a composer used to consist mainly in having talent, writing music in a garret, and maybe finding a wealthy patron or two. Nowadays, what with foundation grants, teaching jobs, formal contests and informal cocktail party juries, the business is a lot more complicated. In the A.C.A. (American Composers Alliance) Bulletin, Iowa-born Composer Lockrem Johnson (A Letter to Emily) offers a sardonic, modern-day guide to musical success. Excerpts: ¶ "Learn to balance teacups. Naturally, this applies only to the beginning stages of your career. By the time of your first major symphonic work you will graduate...
...French poet Baudelaire should be chosen as the patron Satan of college students vacationing in Florida [TIME, April 13]. His words, "Be drunken always . . . nothing else matters," could be incorporated into a fine party song, and the beaches and motels of Fort Lauderdale would have little trouble passing for the streets and houses of Paris that he so vividly described...
...pick out from a collection of objects-rosaries, canes, drums for summoning servants-the ones that belonged to the old man. In 1939, aged 4, seated on a golden palanquin, he was borne to Lhasa, where he was soon enthroned as the 14th incarnation of Chen-Re-Zi, the patron god of Bo (Tibet), and thus became for more than 3,000,000 followers the Living Buddha, the Holy One, the Tender, Glorious One, the Mighty of Speech, the Excellent Understanding, the Absolute Wisdom, the Defender of the Faith, the Ocean...
...Methodist, I am shocked by the committee known as the P.O.A.U. [Jan. 19]. Patron saints of the armed forces are (and were) members of the early Christian church -not solely Catholic saints but saints of all Christians, Protestants as well as Roman Catholics...
Cheers to the P.O.A.U. and their efforts to stamp out patron saints in the U.S. Army. With the Army courts-martial and delinquency rate being reduced and prisons being closed after a general improvement of G.I. standards, it is apparent that soldiers are close to becoming respectable citizens. Perhaps we could foster a return to those classic pastimes of the soldier: booze, babes and brawls...