Word: personally
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...album at Manhattan's Town Hall. Most of the selections are from his previous albums (If I Were a Carpenter, Red Balloon, The Lady Came from Baltimore). What those albums do not contain, however, is the degree of spontaneity and emotional depth that mark Hardin's in-person performing. He has one of the most poignant voices in the folk field, seemingly always about to crack or lapse into a sigh, as if the effort of every graceful phrase cost him pain. His melodic songs of love, loneliness and loss are romantic yet rigorously crafted ("You look...
...Union of Writers by being its member, while the union adds nothing to Solzhenitsyn." Then, returning to the hard life of his friend, he paid final tribute to a valiant spirit and, in the process, movingly described the source of intellectual discontent in today's Russia. "A person, in Kosterin's idea, is a thinking being. Therefore, nature has given to him a striving for knowledge, that is, for critically evaluating reality, drawing one's own conclusions and freely stating one's convictions and opinions. For this, he was terribly hated by those who believe that...
Members of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, who took the case to the federal courts, asked for $1,000,000 in punitive damages. Judge Cox held that the three defendants were unquestionably responsible for "the dastardly act"; as a matter of law, he said, no reasonable person could dispute their liability. The jury of eight Negroes and four whites then called for $21,500 actual damages, plus $1,000,000 punitive damages. Said Attorney Martha Wood: "We hope that an award of this size will deter such acts in the future...
...million dollars a year, including record royalties -although he coyly denies that he is rich ("Heavens, no!"). Furthermore, the travel, the friendship of the famous, the adoring crowds and the publicity are heady stimulation to someone who is instinctively a performer. "I'm not the kind of person who would want to confine himself to playing in his own salon," Cliburn admits...
...world's few gainfully employed freelance socialists. He adopted this rubric 40 years ago, after a series of political and moral crises persuaded him that Russian-dominated Communism was a perversion of Marxist and humanitarian ideals. He had been a founder of the Italian Communist Party, a shadow person in the anti-Fascist underground, a delegate to Moscow convocations of the faithful and an exile from Mussolini's Italy. In 1930, he settled in Switzerland, and stayed for 14 years, writing novels. His best was Bread and Wine (1937), the story of an idealist's struggle against...