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Virtually every night during New York City's nine-month music season, Winthrop Sargeant takes his aisle seat at the opera or a concert hall. On Saturday he writes the music column for The New Yorker-a column with considerable bite if he finds the performers indifferent, the conductor lackluster or the composers too avant-garde for his conservative taste...
...group of 11 prison reformers including Judge Harry Elam, chairman of Governor Sargent's prison investigation team, demanded an explanation from Sargeant of the mounting crisis in the state's prison system that has forced the surprise resignation of the state Commissioner of Corrections, John J. Fitzpatrick...
...ante. The scene is now the neo-Honeymooners apartment of Celia and her husband Phil (Simon Oakland), a retired master sargeant. Swede (Conrad Bain), an old army buddy, has just arrived and the two men are up to their elbows in cans of beer and talk of the army, the fights and other things that generally just aren't what they once used to be. Celia, a childless, tired woman, her hair--as described by her own mother--a gaudy "change-of-life red," tries to force the conversation to include herself. She gossips about the neighbors, laments the marriage...
Former Marine Sargeant Jack Smith, the first to discard his medals, said the vets were gathered in Washington to visit those "whose action and inaction was responsible for the war... our testimony gives definition to words like genocide, racism, and atrocity...
...quart a day of former times) ever dull his tart, epigrammatic wit. Conductors, critics and colleagues regularly felt its sting. Stravinsky once said of Leopold Stokowski that "he must have spent an hour a day trying to find the perfect bisexual hairdo." He called New Yorker Music Critic Winthrop Sargeant "W.S. Deaf." Of a new Gian Carlo Menotti opera, he said, "It is 'farther out' than anything I've seen in a decade; in the wrong direction, of course." He also took on broader targets. The technology of today's recording engineers, he complained, removed natural...