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...commerce. Presumably by threatening to deny unemployment benefits, the government would coerce the jobless into performing what the laborers would likely perceive as make-work. The entire scene seems almost like a tremendous civilian chain gang. Like the members of the Reconstruction and Reclamation Corps in Vonnegut's Player Piano, such workers would soon begin to think of themselves as "Reeks and Wrecks...
DIED. Glenn Gould, 50, eccentric, commanding piano virtuoso celebrated for his interpretations of Bach, and one of the first classical performers to concentrate on the LP recording as an art form; of a stroke; in Toronto. A Canadian-born Wunderkind who was playing the piano at 3 and composing at 5, Gould won critical acclaim as a young man for performances that pulsed with rhythmic dynamism and exuberance while retaining clarity and subtlety. He was almost as famous for such oddball habits as wearing gloves, scarf and overcoat in summer. Gould ended his concert career in 1964, concentrating after that...
Billy Joel, in his ascent to unrivaled commercial success, never made us dance. In fact, as he carved out his comfy pop niche, he never made us do or feel much of anything. But on Piano Man, The Stranger and 52nd Street he described just enough familiar American experiences with enough pleasing, if not arresting music. We bought his albums and made him popular...
...music doesn't help matters. Joel was in a motorcycle accident last year which injured his hand, thereby hampering his piano playing. But instead of cutting back to simplistic piano and equally straightforward musical accompaniment. Joel has souped up and cluttered his songs with synthesizer zanies and special effects. The tunes are about as endearing as the cold, distant stories told...
...balance of the first floor is used as studio space by the Visual and Environmental Studies Department. Upstairs are several long hallways' worth of small offices. The University piano tuner has one, so do about a dozen teachers in the East Asian Languages and Civilization Department. At one end of the floor is the Project for Kibbutz Studies, a branch of the Center for Jewish Studies that coordinates research and teaching on Israeli cooperative communities...