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...solution was to lampoon 17th and 18th century composers. Schickele avoided trying to spoof modern music, which he thinks is beyond satire; parodies of contemporary pieces "sound just like good contemporary pieces." Another solution was to write music for films (Crazy Quilt) and record al bums (Joan Baez, Buffy Sainte-Marie). An enemy of the idea that every piece has to be "a big deal," he composed deliberately casual chamber works for parties and coffeehouses. Mostly for his own amusement, he wrote ragtime piano pieces and rock 'n' roll songs...
These 15 scrupulously crafted stories, all but three of which appeared in The New Yorker, display this ability even better than his controversial crazy-quilt novel, Snow White (TIME, May 26, 1967). In The Indian Uprising, Comanches attack a city whose streets are named Boulevard Mark Clark, Rue Chester Nimitz and George C. Marshall Allee. The narrator is a maudlin drunk who utters battle bulletins and sophisticated banalities with equal apathy. The effect is similar to the sense of unreality created by television when newsreels of carnage run smoothly into advertisements for the good life...
Besides Lennon and the crazy-quilt style, the other holdover in this film from Lester movies is Michael Crawford, the "I" of the title, who turns in a perfectly credible, ultimately chilling performance...
Visible & Viable. The amount of control conglomerates wield over their crazy-quilt acquisitions varies widely. Many of the leading ones keep their headquarters remarkably lean. Litton is proud of the fact that it runs its far-flung empire with a central staff-secretaries and all-of fewer than 250 people. Chairman Rupert C. Thompson Jr. of Textron Inc., a $1.1 billion-a-year complex that makes everything from Sheaffer fountain pens to Bell helicopters, houses his entire headquarters in 1½ floors of a small office building in downtown Providence. So decentralized is Dallas' fast-growing Ling-Temco-Vought...
...second quilt is a portrait of Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), perhaps the greatest Negro American of the 19th century. Despite frequent floggings, he taught himself to write, escaped from slavery, and took his surname from Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake. He made his first abolitionist speech here in Massachusetts at the age of 24, and eventually rose to hold several government posts. He wrote one of the greatest autobiographies ever penned by an American, the first edition of which is on exhibition; and the U.S. Post Office this spring honored his sesquicentennial by issuing a special commemorative...