Word: schwalb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while, everybody sounded a little hysterical. New York City Criminal Court Judge Morris Schwalb, exasperated at the extent of prostitution, arbitrarily ordered two girls to be locked up without bail. "Streetwalking prostitutes contribute to disease," the judge declared. "They are responsible for serious crimes." An attorney for the New York Civil Liberties Union, on the other hand, denounced Schwalb for "an utterly outrageous exercise of judicial power." Mayor John Lindsay, like so many mayors in such embarrassing circumstances, ordered yet another "crackdown on vice." But as the police began rounding up streetwalkers, 50 militant Women's Liberationists picketed...
...twelve he was working on Beethoven sonatas, playing in state contests, and giving solo recitals. In four years at Harvard, he took not one music course; he majored first in chemistry and then in history and science. He did accompany the Harvard Glee Club and had lessons with Miklos Schwalb at the New England Conservatory and gave several solo recitals. Junior year was a turning point in his career. He decided that he did not want to be a concert pianist, but a composer. He stopped taking lessons, stopped performing and tried (unsuccessful) to fit Music 51 into his schedule...