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...explained Morris Graves, and two years ago fled his Seattle home for a quiet place. His new retreat: a manor house in the green Irish hills near Dublin. There he could hear once again the little sounds of nature that are "essential nourishment" for him at 49. But the racket of the U.S. inspired some of the best pictures Graves has made in years...
...Music, by Leonard Bernstein. Using mostly scripts of his notable TV shows, the conductor-composer writes about music for the layman without sounding like a practitioner of what he calls the "Music Appreciation Racket...
...writing his scripts, Bernstein explains, he tried to avoid the tortuous absurdities of practitioners of the "Music Appreciation Racket" who tangle themselves and their readers in niggling explanations of "the-theme-upside-down-in-the-second-oboe." The result is a book that is fresh, witty and informative. Bernstein meanders through discussions of the conductor's art, the dubbing of movie scores, the grandeur of grand opera, the Americanness of American musical comedy, the prejudice against modern music, and half a dozen other topics - all tending to disprove Bernstein's own thesis that "the only...
...make up at least half the clientele, are legally old enough to get oiled enough to make noise enough to drown out a singer who deserves a silent room. For all that, in the constricted world of Hawaiian night life, Ann Weldon's talent rides over the racket with unexpected authority...
Some stars play along with the racket because crack writers are tough to come by, must be pampered. According to Hollywood folklore, Jack Benny once used a quick series of five plugs which furnished the home of a writer who was about to get married. But a writer often has to exercise all his creative talents to ease in a plug. Working on a racing yarn, one writer yearned to plug a well-known drug product. Solution: he named a race horse Anahist...